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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I just listened to last Thursday&#8217;s call. It sounds as if you covered a lot of ground, although I haven&#8217;t yet checked whether the FAQs Rudi circulated contain anything that didn&#8217;t come
 up on the pages I highlighted as important for us as I read the <i>Final report from the EWG on gTLD Directory Services</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">At one point Jim Galvin asked whether transformation would be required at the validation stage. I would say no to that question. The original language/script data are primary and suitable
 for validation. It&#8217;s not that transformed data cannot be validated, but they need to be high quality (outside Greek, Cyrillic and alphabetic scripts often created by human being rather than a computer). Actually I think Rudi made a similar point later in the
 call, but just to clarify that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel &#43;44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599)
<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon</span></a>
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