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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please see attached for the consideration of your respective stakeholder groups and constituencies, the IPC comments on the GAC subgroup proposal regarding “protection
of geographic names in the new gTLD process.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We will introduce these comments during the GAC briefing to the ICANN community on this topic scheduled to take place this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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