<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A few recent communications to the Working Group list may have left you either confused or uninformed. We apologize for the inconvenience.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We would like to take this opportunity to provide the following clarification:</div><ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Mailing lists</b> - All communications about the Thick Whois Implementation Project will go to the Implementation Review Team’s list (gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org). Please note that Thick Whois PDP Working Group's list (gnso-thickwhoispdp-wg@icann.org) will be retired next Friday. If you are not yet on the IRT list and would like to be added, please let me know.</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Recent Meeting cancellation notices</b> - The recent meeting cancellation notices that were sent to the gnso-thickwhoispdp-wg@icann.org list are unfortunate and unintended side effects of housekeeping done on our Outlook Calendar system.</li><li><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Next Meetings of the IRT</b><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> - A separate email to the gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org list with follow shortly on this topic.</font></li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you for your attention.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Best Regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><div><div>-- </div><div>Fabien Betremieux</div></div><div>Sr. Registry Services & Engagement Manager</div><div>ICANN</div></div></div></body></html>