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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">John, you didn’t read to the last line of my post –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all these events will be webcast live so that you can be an eyewitness to history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Virtualaw LLC</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">1155 F Street, NW</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Suite 1050</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Washington, DC 20004</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Twitter: @VlawDC</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">&quot;Luck is the residue of design&quot; -- Branch Rickey</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> john@crediblecontext.com [mailto:john@crediblecontext.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 31, 2014 11:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Phil Corwin; bc-gnso@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [bc-gnso] RE: ICANN Week in DC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phil,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there webcasting for any of these?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Berard<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Subject: [bc-gnso] RE: ICANN Week in DC<br>
From: &quot;Phil Corwin&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>&gt;<br>
Date: 3/30/14 7:15 pm<br>
To: &quot;<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>&gt;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">My jet lagged self switched the hearings dates and times … correct data now at
<a href="http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC">http://www.internetcommerce.org/ICANN_Week_DC</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Twitter: @VlawDC</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">&quot;Luck is the residue of design&quot; -- Branch Rickey</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Phil Corwin
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Sent:</span></strong> Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:47 PM<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">
bc-gnso@icann.org</a><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Subject:</span></strong> FW: ICANN Week in DC<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Importance:</span></strong> High</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great to see all of you who were in Singapore/hope you all made it home safe and sound.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI---</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">DC Trains Laser Focus on ICANN. IANA, and NTIA – ICA Counsel to Speak On U.S Role in Internet Governance</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The calm is over, and the storm may be about to begin. Congress is back from recess and not one but two Congressional Committees are about to hone in on the implications of the NTIA’s March 14<sup>th</sup> announcement
 of its intention to surrender its IANA functions contract counterparty status with ICANN by September 2015.
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Meantime, an exhausting ICANN meeting has just concluded in Singapore, at which much more was learned about the import of that decision and the complexities of implementing it (more on that in a separate post-jetlag
 post). Everything ICANN-related, including the Internet governance status of business in general and domainers in particular, is up for grabs and at risk for at least the next eighteen months.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This is ICANN week in Washington. Besides those two Hill hearings, two major think tanks are also holding ICANN-related programs.
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<u><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Here’s the lineup:</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">First, on Wednesday, April 2, the </span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee will explore the question of “<a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=027833A0-0028-42E2-A14B-B9C8BA2576A6">Should
 the Department of Commerce Relinquish Direct Oversight Over ICANN?</a>” at 10 am Eastern Time. While the witness list is not yet available, the Subcommittee is likely to focus on whether NTIA has the legal power to make this decision absent Congressional authorization
 -- and the potential fallout for Internet free speech and trademark and copyright protection.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The following day, the Communications and Telecommunications Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider
<a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internet">
“<span lang="EN-US">Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet”</span></a>
</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">. This is the Subcommittee with direct NTIA oversight, and the hearing may be contentious. The star-studded witness list consists of:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The Honorable Larry Strickling</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Administration</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">National Telecommunications and Information Administration</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">U.S. Department of Commerce</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
&nbsp;<br>
The Honorable David A. Gross<br>
Partner<br>
Wiley Rein, LLP<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Mr. Fadi Chehadé</span></strong><b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">President and CEO</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</span></strong><br>
</b>&nbsp;<br>
Mr. Steve DelBianco<br>
Executive Director<br>
NetChoice<br>
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Ms. Carolina Rossini<br>
Project Director, Latin American Resource Center<br>
Internet Governance and Human Rights Program<br>
New American Foundation </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Also on Thursday, the influential Information Technology and Innovation Foundation will hold a program on “</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://www.itif.org/events/bully-or-bodyguard-assessing-proper-role-united-states-internet-governance">Bully
 or Bodyguard? Assessing the Proper Role of the United States in Internet Governance</a>”. ICA’s Counsel will be one of the presenters. The complete speaker’s list is:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Robert D. Atkinson </span>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Moderator </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Phil Corwin </span>
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC (and ICA Counsel)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Steve DelBianco </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Executive Director,&nbsp; NetChoice
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Eli Dourado </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Research Fellow, Mercatus Center
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Finally, on Friday, the respected Hudson Institute will host “<a href="http://www.hudson.org/events/1144-a-discussion-with-the-hon-lawrence-strickling-about-the-future-of-icann42014">A Discussion with the Hon.
 Lawrence Strickling about the future of ICANN</a>”. Coming just after his Hill appearance, this should be a most interesting session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all these events will be webcast live so that you can be an eyewitness to history.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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