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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear members of the GNSO Review Working Party,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Happy New Year! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks to many of you and others in the GNSO community who made the time to meet with the team from Westlake Governance (particularly given the holiday time), the independent examiners’ continued outreach
has resulted in useful interactions and feedback. We have extended time frames in order to achieve
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">quality feedback from all relevant parties and to provide sufficient time for Westlake to complete their analysis.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The schedule of review activities is in the process of revision and will be updated in early January 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best wishes for a happy 2015,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Larisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Larisa B. Gurnick<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Director, Strategic Initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:larisa.gurnick@icann.org">larisa.gurnick@icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">310 383-8995<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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