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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">ICANN has an open public comment on a roadmap for development and adoption of a successor to the Whois protocol. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">The
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">BC member Bill Smith (Paypal) circulated his initial thoughts on a BC comment back on 6-Mar. At our Costa Rica meeting we discussed Bill's draft
and asked for volunteers to refine into a BC submission. Everyone's been pretty busy lately, so this task fell to me and I've only now turned to it.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">A 2-page draft BC comment is attached. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">These comments are due 8-Apr. Bill's comments went to the BC list on 6-Mar, but the attached draft is presented to you with for expedited member review over the next 5 days.
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">If any BC member <u>objects</u> to the BC filing the attached draft comment , please REPLY ALL and indicate your objection and reason. If any member objections are noted before 8-Apr, we will extend the review
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">If no objections are noted we will post the attached draft to ICANN on the closing date of 8-Apr.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Thanks again to Bill Smith for taking the lead on this.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Steve DelBianco</span></div>
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