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<div style="font-size: medium;">Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, has asked that a call for comments be made on the draft
<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/VqzhAg">ALAC Statement on the Introduction of Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace</a> in preparation for the start of the ALAC ratification process.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">The current draft, as well as additional information on the Public Comment, can be found on the
<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/VqzhAg">At-Large Introduction of Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace Workspace</a>. </div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Please submit any comments on the workspace using the comments function by
<b>11 August 2014 20:00 UTC</b>.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;">Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org%3cmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" style="font-size: 11pt; color: purple;"></a><a href="applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" style="font-size: 11pt;">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a></p>
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