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<DIV>Great result!</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Thanks to
Rudi and Anne for the commitment to lead this effort!<BR><BR>Best
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=julie.hedlund@icann.org
href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org">Julie Hedlund</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 07, 2016 3:53 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org
href="mailto:gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org">gnso-improvem-impl-sc@icann.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [gnso-improvem-impl-sc] 2016 SCI Chair and Vice
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<DIV>Dear SCI members,</DIV>
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<DIV>As of the deadline of Tuesday 15 December, 23:59 UTC the following
nominations were received:</DIV>
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<DIV>SCI Chair: Anne-Aikman Scalese from the IPC nominated Rudi Vansnick. Rudi
accepted the nomination. Angie Graves from the Business Constituency
and Wolf-Ulrich Knoben from the ICPCP indicated their support for the
nomination.</DIV>
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<DIV>SCI Vice-Chair: Rudi Vansnick nominated Anne Aikman-Scalese. Anne
accepted the nomination.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thus, the 2016 SCI Chair is Rudi Vansnick and the Vice Chair is Anne
Aikman-Scalese. Please join us in thanking Rudi and Anne for taking on
these important roles.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kind regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Julie</DIV>
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<DIV>Julie Hedlund, Policy Director</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>