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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The New gTLD Program office has posted
today the DNS Stability paper for Public Comments. The paper can be viewed on
the announcements page as well as New gTLD Program page. This announcement is another
milestone on implementation work being developed by staff, more specifically, </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>it relates to
the GNSO Counsel recommendation that “<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Strings
must not cause any technical instability</span></i>.”</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ICANN will continue to provide
updated information via the New gTLD Program webpage - <a
href="http://www.icann.org/topics/new-gtld-program.htm">http://www.icann.org/topics/new-gtld-program.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thank you,</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color="#4c4c4c"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#4C4C4C;
font-weight:bold'>Karla Valente</span></font></b><font color="#333333"><span
style='color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=1 color="#4c4c4c"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#4C4C4C;
font-weight:bold'>(New) gTLD Program Director, </span></font></b><b><font
size=1 color="#4c4c4c" face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#4C4C4C;font-weight:bold'>ICANN</span></font></b><font
color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=1 color="#4c4c4c"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#4C4C4C'>Direct:
+1 310 301 3878</span></font><font color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
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</span></font><ns0:City w:insAuthor="IT" w:insDate="2008-02-06T13:14:00Z"
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color="#aca095"><span style='color:#ACA095'>, </span></font><ns0:State
w:insAuthor="IT" w:insDate="2008-02-06T13:14:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="IT"
w:endInsDate="2008-02-06T13:14:00Z"><st1:State w:st="on"><font color="#aca095"><span
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color="#aca095"><span style='color:#ACA095'>90292</span></font></st1:PostalCode><font
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