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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="3">A "legal communication" is certainly something we would have to carefully define as a group, but as a starting point, I would define it as any communication by an individual or entity that
asserts a problem connected to the ownership or use of a domain name by the beneficial registrant based on <u>and</u> citing the laws of any jurisdiction. The communication need not threaten a lawsuit, or be made by a law firm to constitute a "legal communication." The
communication would be submitted via the accepted, to-be-determined means of communication. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="3">Best,</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="3">Val</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span dir="ltr">Valeriya Sherman<br>
Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, L.L.P.<br>
1101 30th Street, N.W.<br>
Suite 120<br>
Washington, D.C. 20007<br>
Tel 202.944.3300<br>
Cell 303.589.7477<br>
</span><a target="_blank" href="mailto:vsherman@law.gwu.edu" tabindex="0" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">vsherman@sgbdc.com</a></font></p>
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<div id="divRpF726494" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Volker Greimann [vgreimann@key-systems.net]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 18, 2014 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Valeriya Sherman; Williams, Todd; gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Proposal contactability<br>
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<div>Hi Valeriya,
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<div><font size="3">Another narrower approach would be to</font><font size="3"> ensure that </font><font size="3"><u>all</u></font><font size="3"> communications that contain </font><font size="3">legal complaints are relayed without exception. </font><font size="3">To
be clear, under this approach, there would be no content evaluation, other than to determine that any given communication is or contains a legal complaint.
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<font size="3">What is a legal communication though? Does it have to include a threat of a law suit? Does it have to include formal legal representation by a law firm?</font>
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Also, this should be limited to the means of communication offered by the service provider, i.e. if postal relay is not offered, legal communications by postal mail would face the same fate as spam, i.e. the bin...<br>
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volker<br>
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