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<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear members</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The following links provide recent correspondence from Peter Dengate Thrush, Board Chair to Heather Dryden, GAC Chair</div><div>which the Chair has asked that I call to your attention.</div><div><br></div><div>The first link is the Board/staff response to the GAC on the scorecard and will be very important to members trying to track</div><div>the status of discussions on the new gTLDs.</div><div>The second link is a very recent letter from Board Chair to GAC Chair on the ATRT. Both are relevant to BC discussions during&nbsp;</div><div>San Francisco meeting.&nbsp;</div><div><br>
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<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br class="ecxwebkit-block-placeholder"></div><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-dryden-05mar11-en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-dryden-05mar11-en.pdf</a><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-dryden-05mar11-en.pdf" target="_blank"></a><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br class="ecxwebkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-dryden-08mar11-en.pdf" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/dengate-thrush-to-dryden-08mar11-en.pdf</a></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">I will try to keep down the extraordinary postings, but since these are documents that I was asked about by a couple of members,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">am posting them for your convenience. &nbsp;</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><b>Stay tuned for a later posting with updates on the schedules for next week. I am promised news from ICANN during the day on the schedule</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><b>reorganizations.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><b>We will have an informal BC gathering on Friday evening with informal drinks for members there already, Saturday morning and evening if needed [brief gatherings on Saturday].&nbsp;</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><b>and a more formalized updated schedule to be announced as noted, later today.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">Marilyn Cade</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">BC Chair</div><div><br></div></div>                                               </body>
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