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<div>Thanks, Mary - and hello everyone!</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">I am a trademark/copyright attorney from the San Francisco Bay Area, and currently Senior Counsel with Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP. I am also the current American Bar Association representative to the IPC. I have
counseled clients on domain name disputes and RPM's since 2007.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">My goal is to promote a balanced and reasoned approach to the DNS, one that respects the legitimate rights of brand owners and domain name registrants alike, with a particular focus on the welfare and safety of Internet users and
the consuming public.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">I look forward to working with each of you.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Kind regards,</div>
<div id="AppleMailSignature">Marina<br>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marina A. Lewis</b>
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On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Mary Wong via gnso-rpm-wg <<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Thank you so much, George, and hello everybody, welcome to the Policy Development Process Working Group that’s been chartered by the GNSO Council to review all the rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) that have been developed for all gTLDs!</span><br>
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<span>Staff will be working with our interim WG chair and Council liaison, Philip Corwin, to set up the first meeting of the Working Group, currently anticipated to be sometime around mid-April. Some of you will have already participated in previous GNSO Working
Groups, while others may be less familiar with the procedures and expectations, so staff will also be scheduling a webinar at around the same time to go over the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) and the GNSO’s Working Group Guidelines.</span><br>
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<span>In the meantime, given that there are indeed a large number of members and observers to this Working Group, it will be helpful if others follow George’s lead and take the opportunity to introduce yourselves, your expertise and interest in this PDP, to
everyone via this email list. As with all GNSO mailing lists, all messages are publicly archived so you will be able to look up others’ (and your own) information and postings.</span><br>
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<span>Finally, if you haven’t already filled in your Statement of Interest - which is one of the few requirements for participation in a GNSO Working Group - we would greatly appreciate it if you can do so at your earliest convenience. Please follow this link
to either create a new SOI or update an existing one: <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/cYLg">
https://community.icann.org/x/cYLg</a>.</span><br>
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<span>Thanks and cheers</span><br>
<span>Mary</span><br>
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<span>Mary Wong</span><br>
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<span>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><br>
<span>Email: <a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org">mary.wong@icann.org</a></span><br>
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<span>On 3/25/16, 12:53, "<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of George Kirikos via gnso-rpm-wg" <<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Just to followup on my earlier "introduction" email, it appears that</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>(92 members + 37 observers) It's great to see some familiar names, and</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>some new ones too.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>As folks relax over this long holiday weekend, you might want to take</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>participants with a short email to the list, for what I hope will be a</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>George Kirikos</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, George Kirikos <<a href="mailto:icann@leap.com">icann@leap.com</a>> wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi folks,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>(resending the email from this morning, as the mailing list now</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I've followed ICANN for many years, and am volunteering on this</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I look forward to a review and reform of RPMs in such a manner that ></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>the interests of domain name registrants and due process are</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Sincerely,</span><br>
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