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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I would like to share with you a new publication by ICANN’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) entitled “<b>Digital Object Architecture and the Handle System</b>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#4472C4'>This report is not intended to endorse the technology nor offer any recommendations regarding its operation. It is based on the set of publicly available technical documents, an analysis of the code published on CNRI website, and a number of interviews with Dr. Robert Kahn and his team at CNRI.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The report shares a timeline of activities, a list of entities/countries that are using this technology, and also makes a comparison with the DNS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>You can read the report here >> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-002-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-002-en.pdf</a> [PDF].<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>