<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have attached for your review a document which sets out a request for additional information on the technical selection criteria for new TLDs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The document focuses on four key questions around technical criteria which we discussed at some length at the Washington meeting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Could I ask you and your constituencies to come to Wellington with more detailed information about your positions (and the justification for those positions based on ICANN's mission and values)? We would then be able to move forward with discussions about the appropriateness of other selection criteria and allocation methods.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I will be delivering to you all, I hope by the end of this week, an updated version of the new TLD <I>Initial Report</I> in which I have included Washington inputs and other information.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I would expect to be working on that <I>Initial Report</I> during the two day session planned for 25 & 26 March.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Kind regards and, of course, any questions come straight back to me. If necessary, we could add quick discussion of this document to the agenda for next week's Council call.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Liz<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>.....................................................</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Liz Williams</DIV><DIV>Senior Policy Counselor</DIV><DIV>ICANN - Brussels</DIV><DIV>+32 2 234 7874 tel</DIV><DIV>+32 2 234 7848 fax</DIV><DIV>+32 497 07 4243 mob</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>