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<div class="yiv8870410561MsoNormal">I believe we delimited the scope of variants for the Latin script in the face to face meeting in Brussels, did we not?</div> 
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<b>Reply-To: </b>Bill Jouris <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com><br clear="none">
<b>Date: </b>Friday, May 18, 2018 at 2:18 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b>Dennis Tan Tanaka <dtantanaka@verisign.com>, Meikal Mumin <meikal@mumin.de><br clear="none">
<b>Cc: </b>Michael Bauland <Michael.Bauland@knipp.de>, "Tan Tanaka, Dennis via Latingp" <latingp@icann.org><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Latingp] Variant cross-script analysis worksheets</span></div> 
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Inside Products<br clear="none">
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831-659-8360<br clear="none">
925-855-9512 (direct)</span></div> 
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<b>To:</b> Meikal Mumin <meikal@mumin.de> <br clear="none">
<b>Cc:</b> "bill.jouris@insidethestack.com" <bill.jouris@insidethestack.com>; Michael Bauland <Michael.Bauland@knipp.de>; "Tan Tanaka, Dennis via Latingp" <latingp@icann.org><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 18, 2018 10:20 AM<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Latingp] Variant cross-script analysis worksheets</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black;"></span></div> 
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