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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Jordan Carter &lt;<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>&gt;<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Re: [discuss] [ianatransition] ICG Issues RFP to Fulfill Secretariat Function</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">5 September 2014 5:23:25 pm AEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Grace Abuhamad &lt;<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>&gt;, "<a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a>" &lt;<a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a>&gt;<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a href="mailto:ianatransition@icann.org">ianatransition@icann.org</a>" &lt;<a href="mailto:ianatransition@icann.org">ianatransition@icann.org</a>&gt;<br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><div dir="ltr">Can someone from the ICG please urgently explain to me (and to everyone else) how one is meant to express interest by this Sunday to run a secretariat with unspecified scope and function as of the Friday?<div><br></div><div>Deeply puzzled here.</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2014 22:29, Grace Abuhamad <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" target="_blank">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Please see original post here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-02-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-02-en</a></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-weight:500!important;font-size:1.31rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding:0px 0px 1rem;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,207,207);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr>&nbsp;Stewardship Transition Coordination Group to Issue Request for Proposal (RFP) to Fulfill Secretariat Function</h1><div style="font-size:1.62rem;margin-bottom:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300&amp;winname=addthis&amp;pub=ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89&amp;source=tbx32-300&amp;lng=en-US&amp;s=linkedin&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fnews%2Fannouncement-2014-09-02-en&amp;title=IANA%20Stewardship%20Transition%20Coordination%20Group%20to%20Issue%20Request%20for%20Proposal%20(RFP)%20to%20Fulfill%20Secretariat%20Function%20-%20ICANN&amp;ate=AT-ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89/-/-/5408bd19b91688f5/2&amp;frommenu=1&amp;uid=5408bd19e309a0f1&amp;ct=1&amp;pre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fnews%2Fannouncements&amp;tt=0&amp;captcha_provider=nucaptcha" title="LinkedIn" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-02-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a title="Tweet" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-02-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;backgrou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