<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Phil,</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have a sense of where staff wants to take the hearing? Do you know who instigated? Do you think it is more meaningful because it is a subcommittee of Judiciary and not Commerce?</div><div><br></div><div>Berard<br></div>
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Subject: [bc-gnso] House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on gTLD<br>
Program<br>
From: Phil Corwin <<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>><br>
Date: Tue, April 26, 2011 6:31 am<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>><br>
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