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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear Working Group members,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">As noted on the Working Group call that took place on Wednesday 29 March, three Sub Teams are being formed to refine (i.e. modify, edit, delete, clarify, or if necessary add to) the existing questions
that were listed in our PDP Charter for Working Group consideration, and to present the proposed questions to the Working Group for review. Please reply to either Amr Elsadr or Mary Wong off-list if you wish to volunteer for one or more of the following three
Sub Teams:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sub Team for
Sunrise Registrations</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sub Team for
Trademark Claims</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sub Team for
Additional Voluntary Protection Mechanisms (e.g. Protected Marks Lists and other protection mechanisms offered by New gTLD Registry Operators)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Staff notes that, with respect to the third Sub Team, several Working Group members had noted that the scope of our PDP does not extend to reviewing the effectiveness of these additional voluntary
RPMs. Staff will be working with the Co-Chairs to develop mandates for each Sub Team that will hopefully ensure that their work is limited to that which is within the scope of what our Working Group was chartered by the GNSO Council to do.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">For your reference, a list of the relevant questions that were included in our Charter for Sunrise and Claims, as well as some more general questions that were also included in our Charter, is
attached. As with the initial Sub Team that refined the TMCH questions, the output from each Sub Team will be submitted to the full Working Group for its confirmation and review.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thanks and cheers</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Mary & Amr</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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