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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Seun, this tendency to disagree with me because it’s me is tiresome and childish. Please try to rise about it during our common project. This is the view of the
 ICG and was discussed extensively on our open, archived list. Check it out. And if you don’t go on vacation in August there is no problem, is there?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"> Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 17, 2015 12:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Milton L Mueller &lt;mueller@syr.edu&gt;<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Greg Shatan &lt;gregshatanipc@gmail.com&gt;; cwg-stewardship@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: Public pre-announcement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Milton L Mueller &lt;<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Just in case the significance of this pre-announcement is not entirely clear, let me spell it out.
 A large part (but not all!) of the comment period lies in the month of August, which is a time many people in Europe and North America go on holiday.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Actually i find it strange that the ICG is stating this as rationale for setting the PC dates. I want to assume that this is just Milton saying what he thinks and not necessarily the official view of ICG.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If its indeed of ICG then @Milton please tell ICG that the IANA process is being carried out by the global community and some of us from other part of the world go on vacation as well and they are not in August.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">However, there is no way to meet the schedule we are targeting, and in particular no way to be ready
 for the Dublin meeting, unless the comment period happens at that time. So people whose work/holiday schedule might be impacted are now forewarned; there could be many ways to handle this if there is time to prepare for it.
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<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Shatan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2015 12:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: Public pre-announcement</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="mailto:jen@icgsec.asia" target="_blank" title="jen@icgsec.asia">Jennifer Chung</a>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> Thursday, July 16, 2015 6:48 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> [Internal-cg] Public pre-announcement: Proposal to transition thestewardship of the
 IANA functions will be out for publiccomment July 31 to September 8 (approximately). More detailsto come later this month.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Per the request from the ICG and the ICG chairs for early public pre-announcement, the Secretariat has posted the following on the ICG home page and social
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">“Proposal to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions will be out for public comment July 31 to September 8 (approximately). More details to come
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<a href="https://www.ianacg.org/" target="_blank">https://www.ianacg.org/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://www.ianacg.org/?p=553" target="_blank">https://www.ianacg.org/?p=553</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ianastewardship/status/621446718463283201" target="_blank">
https://twitter.com/ianastewardship/status/621446718463283201</a> (abbrev. to fit)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ianastewardship/posts/1679144795647486" target="_blank">
https://www.facebook.com/ianastewardship/posts/1679144795647486</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Please broadcast this to your communities!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#006600">Seun Ojedeji,<br>
Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br>
web:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></i><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#888888"><a href="http://www.fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">http://www.fuoye.edu.ng</a><br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#006600">Mobile: &#43;2348035233535</span></i><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#888888"><br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#006600">alt email:<a href="http://goog_1872880453" target="_blank">
</a><a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng</a></span></i><span style="font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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