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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">To follow up on the last Working Group call, please find attached the following documents which we hope will be helpful in the discussion over “whether the TMCH as it operates today fulfills
 the requirements of the Applicant Guidebook for the 2012 New gTLD Program round” (Agenda Item #3 from last week, deferred for discussion on the upcoming call on 1 March):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">The final TMCH framework document, as published in the final version of the Applicant Guidebook for the 2012 New gTLD Program (June 2012);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">The report from the GNSO Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team (December 2009); and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">A staff-compiled Chronological Table of TMCH Developments, outlining the major steps, documents and milestones in the evolution of the TMCH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">All the above documents have also been uploaded to the Working Group wiki space, at
<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/0AusAw">https://community.icann.org/x/0AusAw</a> (for the first two documents), and
<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/_pHRAw">https://community.icann.org/x/_pHRAw</a> (for the staff table).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks and cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Mary Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Email: mary.wong@icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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