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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: normal;"><font face="Palatino" size="4">Dear Keith and GNSO Council Members: </font></span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: normal;"><font face="Palatino" size="4">As a result of unforeseen circumstances, we have recently restructured the GNSO support team. </font></span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: normal;"><font face="Palatino" size="4">Steve Chan, Policy Director, is taking over responsibility for managing the policy support team. He will now be the main point of contact person for any GNSO
support related questions.</font></span></p>
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<font face="Palatino" size="4"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In the meantime, Marika has transitioned to a project </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">support-based</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> arrangement
for the time being. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. </span></span></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino" size="4"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Regardless </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">of certain changes in the policy staffing or organization, there should be no change in the
high quality and level of services and support that is being provided by ICANN org to the GNSO community in its important policy development activities at ICANN. </span></span></font></p>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: normal;"><font face="Palatino" size="4">Best regards. David </font></span></p>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David A. Olive<br>
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