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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=687012614-21092009>Olga, thank you for
the outreach.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=687012614-21092009>Please make this
formal request.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=937133007-21092009>The BC formally
requests travel funding for Philip Sheppard, as a retiring council member, for
the Seoul meeting.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=937133007-21092009>There is
considerable constituency, stakeholder group, and GNSO handover work to
do.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=937133007-21092009><SPAN
class=687012614-21092009>I may also be able to provide a certain institutional
memory.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=937133007-21092009>My organisation can
ordinarily <SPAN class=687012614-21092009>currently </SPAN>fund one
long<SPAN class=687012614-21092009>-</SPAN>haul trip per
year.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=937133007-21092009>This year there have
been three such long-haul and so costly t<SPAN
class=687012614-21092009>r</SPAN>ips (for a European), which is I believe
the first time ever in ICANN history.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=937133007-21092009>Philip</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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