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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear ICANN Secretariat,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment on the report from the Diversity Subgroup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Although I feel that the report goes in the right direction, I would like to generally support the comments made by Ghislain de Salins regarding the need of providing for some sort of adequate external evaluation and/or
assessment of the diversity enhancing measured to be adopted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hope this is helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jorge Cancio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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