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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>Respected Dr. Hong Xue, <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>I am very much glad to read shared information from Ginger Paque and your feedback.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><FONT size=1 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I would like to include some references for on the same context (IDN's Development & Contributions) for further interest:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>References:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>1.</STRONG><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><STRONG> </STRONG><SPAN><A href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/scene_behind_the_screen_of_idn_cctlds/#6554"><FONT color=#800080><STRONG>Scene Behind the Screen of IDN ccTLDs</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT face=Calibri> </FONT>an article on CircleID.com<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><STRONG>2. </STRONG></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://sel.icann.org/node/6740"><FONT color=#800080><STRONG>IDN ccTLD Fast Track Workshop</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT color=#000000><STRONG> - </STRONG></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><FONT color=#000000 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Virtual Meeting Room: </FONT><A href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/p84135836/" target=_blank><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Part 1</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Locate 50:22<BR><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
2"> My discussion with Ms Tina Dam, ICANN’s Director, IDN ccTLD Program.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000>3.<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://public.icann.org/node/7573"><FONT color=#800080>IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program – Launched - iashah’s Blog</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>4.</STRONG><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/idn-cctld-issues/msg00011.html"><FONT color=#800080 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Introduction of IDN ccTLDs - Important Suggestions for Policy preparation of FastTrack</STRONG></FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Thanking you,<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Regards<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Imran Ahmed Shah<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Hong Xue <hongxueipr@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat, 15 May, 2010 14:29:14<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [governance] Friday morning... (Arabic Domain Name) Some<BR></FONT><BR>Thanks Ginger for bringing it up in the list. IDN development and<BR>deployment involve contributions of numerous unknown or unidentified<BR>persons or groups. Irrespective of whether the names of these<BR>contributors were recorded in the history, their works are always<BR>appreciated by the IDNs users.<BR><BR>With respect to policy development, it is difficult to attribute<BR>anything to any specific person. Even for a small topic<BR>(e.g. <A href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/sync-idn-cctlds/" target=_blank>http://forum.icann.org/lists/sync-idn-cctlds/</A>), they could
see<BR>how many people have made the comments to make the policy built up.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Dr. Hong Xue<BR>Professor of Law<BR>Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL)<BR>Beijing Normal University<BR><A href="http://www.cdnua.org/" target=_blank>http://www.cdnua.org/</A><BR>19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street<BR>Beijing 100875 China<BR><BR><BR>On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ginger Paque <<A href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> I did some searches, trying to better understand the background to today's<BR>> milestone. I found a timeline by Prof. S. Subbiah (IGC member) on Ian<BR>> Peter's (another IGC member and former co-coordinator) weblog.<BR>><BR>> Published in May 2007, Ian introduced it like this:<BR>><BR>> "Thanks to Prof. S. Subbiah from Singapore for this excellent short history<BR>> of the attempts to internationalise domain
names.<BR>><BR>> "There is much still to be done!"<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/" target=_blank>http://ianpeter.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/history-of-internationalised-domain-names/</A><BR>><BR>> History of IDN<BR>><BR>> * 12/96: Martin Duerst’s original Internet Draft proposing UTF5 (the first<BR>> incarnation of what is known today as ACE)- UTF-5 was first defined by<BR>> Martin Duerst at the University of Zürich in [3]<BR>> <<A href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00%7Cdraft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00%7Cdraft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt</A>>[4]<BR>> <<A href="http://archive.minc.org/about/history/" target=_blank>http://archive.minc.org/about/history/</A>>[5]<BR>><BR>> ( Subbiah comments: a precursor idea that was never implemented and would<BR>>
not have worked as proposed. Martin later collaborated with the Singapore<BR>> team which was not aware of his previous suggestion til much later))<BR>> <<A href="http://www.connect-world.com/articles/old_articles/Dr-TanTinWee.htm" target=_blank>http://www.connect-world.com/articles/old_articles/Dr-TanTinWee.htm</A>><BR>> * 03/98: Early Research on IDN at National University of Singapore (NUS),<BR>> Center for Internet Research (formerly Internet Research and Development<BR>> Unit – IRDU) led by Prof. Tan Tin Wee (IDN Project team – Lim Juay Kwang and<BR>> Leong Kok Yong) and subsequently continued under a team at Bioinformatrix<BR>> Pte. Ltd. (BIX Pte. Ltd.)<BR>> - a NUS spin-off company led by Prof. S. Subbiah.<BR>> * July 98: Geneva INET’98 conference with a BoF discussion on iDNS and APNG<BR>> General Meeting and Working Group meeting.<BR>> * 07/98: Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG, now still in
existence [6]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.apng.org/" target=_blank>http://www.apng.org/</A>> and distinct from a gathering known as APSTAR<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APSTAR&action=edit" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APSTAR&action=edit</A>> [7]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.apstar.org/" target=_blank>http://www.apstar.org/</A>>) iDNS Working Group formed. [8]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/" target=_blank>http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/</A>><BR>> * 10/98: James Seng <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng</A>> was recruited<BR>> to lead further IDN development at BIX Pte. Ltd. by Prof. S. Subbiah.<BR>> * 02/99: iDNS Testbed launched by BIX Pte. Ltd. under the auspicies of APNG<BR>> with participation from CNNIC<BR>> <<A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC</A>>, JPNIC<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Network_Information_Center</A>>,<BR>> KRNIC, TWNIC, THNIC, HKNIC and SGNIC led by James Seng<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng</A>> [9]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/idomain/</A>><BR>><BR>> * 02/99: Presentation of Report on IDN at Joint APNG-APTLD meeting, at<BR>> APRICOT’99<BR>> * 03/99: Endorsement of the IDN Report at APNG General Meeting 1 March 1999.<BR>> * 06/99: Grant application by APNG jointly with the Centre for Internet<BR>> Research (CIR), National University of Singapore, to the International<BR>>
Development Research Center (IDRC), a Canadian Government funded<BR>> international organisation to work on IDN for IPv6. This APNG Project was<BR>> funded under the Pan Asia R&D Grant administered on behalf of IDRC by the<BR>> Canadian Committee on Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Principal<BR>> Investigator: Tan Tin Wee of National University of Singapore. [10]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/ipv6/" target=_blank>http://www.apng.org/old/commission/idns/ipv6/</A>><BR>> * 07/99 Tout, Walid R. (WALID Inc.) Filed IDNA patent application number<BR>> US1999000358043 Method and system for internationalizing domain names.<BR>> Published 2001-01-30 [11] <<A href="http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__" target=_blank>http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US06182148__</A>><BR>><BR>> * 07/99: [12]<BR>> <<A
href="http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jseng-utf5-00.txt" target=_blank>http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-jseng-utf5-00.txt</A>>;<BR>> Renewed 2000 [13]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/documents/mdnkit-2.4-doc/reference/draft/draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt" target=_blank>http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/documents/mdnkit-2.4-doc/reference/draft/draft-jseng-utf5-01.txt</A>><BR>> Internet Draft on UTF5 by James Seng, Martin Duerst and Tan Tin Wee.<BR>><BR>> * 08/99: APTLD and APNG forms a working group<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_group</A>> to look into IDN<BR>> issues chaired by Kilnam Chon. [14]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/iname/" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/about/history/idns/iname/</A>><BR>> * 10/99: BIX Pte.
Ltd. and National University of Singapore together with<BR>> New York Venture Capital investors, General Atlantic Partners, spun-off the<BR>> IDN effort into 2 new Singapore companies – i-DNS.net International Inc. and<BR>> i-Email.net Pte. Ltd. that created the first commercial implementation of an<BR>> IDN Solution for both domain names and IDN email addresses respectively.<BR>> * 11/99: IETF <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF</A>> IDN Birds-of-Feather in<BR>> Washington was initiated by i-DNS.net at the request of IETF officials.<BR>> * 12/99: i-DNS.net InternationalPte. Ltd. launched the first commercial IDN.<BR>> It was in Taiwan and in Chinese characters under the top-level IDN TLD<BR>> “.gongsi” (meaning loosely “.com”) with endorsement by the Minister of<BR>> Communications of Taiwan and some major Taiwanese ISPs with reports of over<BR>>
200 000 names sold in a week in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia,<BR>> China, Australia and USA.<BR>> * Late 1999: Kilnam Chon initiates Task Force on IDNS which led to formation<BR>> of MINC, the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium. [15]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/</A>><BR>> * 01/2000: IETF <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF</A>> IDN Working Group formed<BR>> chaired by James Seng<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Seng</A>> and Marc Blanchet<BR>> <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blanchet&action=edit" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Blanchet&action=edit</A>><BR>> * 01/2000: The second ever commercial IDN launch was IDN TLDs
in the Tamil<BR>> Language, corresponding to .com, .net, .org, and .edu. These were launched<BR>> in India with IT Ministry support by i-DNS.net International.<BR>> * 02/2000: Multilingual Internet Names Consortium(MINC) Proposal BoF at IETF<BR>> Adelaide. [16]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old//meetings/minc_20000327.html" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old//meetings/minc_20000327.html</A>><BR>> * 03/2000: APRICOT 2000 Multilingual DNS session [17]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.apricot.net/apricot2000/index2.html" target=_blank>http://www.apricot.net/apricot2000/index2.html</A>><BR>> * 04/2000: WALID Inc. (with IDNA patent pending application 6182148) started<BR>> Registration & Resolving Multilingual Domain Names.<BR>> * 05/2000: Interoperability Testing WG, MINC meeting. San Francisco, chaired<BR>> by Bill Manning and Y.Yoneya 12 May 2000. [18]<BR>> <<A
href="http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/sanfrancisco_20000512/testing_SFO.htm" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/oldminc/old/meetings/sanfrancisco_20000512/testing_SFO.htm</A>><BR>> * 06/2000: Inaugural Launch of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium<BR>> (MINC) in Seoul [19] <<A href="http://www.minc.org/" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/</A>> to drive the collaborative<BR>> roll-out of IDN starting from the Asia Pacific.<BR>> [20] <<A href="http://www.minc.org/about/history/" target=_blank>http://www.minc.org/about/history/</A>><BR>> * 07/2000: Joint Engineering TaskForce (JET) initiated in Yokohama to study<BR>> technical issues led by JPNIC (K.Konishi)<BR>> * 07/2000: Official Formation of CDNC Chinese Domain Name Consortium to<BR>> resolve issues related to and to deploy Han Character domain names, founded<BR>> by CNNIC, TWNIC, HKNIC and MONIC in May 2000. [21]<BR>> <<A
href="http://www.cdnc.org/english/introduction/index.html" target=_blank>http://www.cdnc.org/english/introduction/index.html</A>> [22]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html" target=_blank>http://www.cdnc.org/english/news/index.html</A>><BR>><BR>> * 03/01: ICANN <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN</A>> Board IDN Working Group<BR>> formed<BR>> * 07/01: Japanese Domain Name Association : JDNA Lauch Ceremony (July 13,<BR>> 2001) in Tokyo, Japan.<BR>> * 07/01: Urdu Internet Names System (July 28, 2001) in Islamabad, Pakistan,<BR>> Organised Jointly by SDNP and MINC. [23] <<A href="http://urduworkshop.sdnpk.org/" target=_blank>http://urduworkshop.sdnpk.org/</A>><BR>> * 07/01: Presentation on IDN to the Committee Meeting of the Computer<BR>> Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies USA (JULY 11-13,<BR>> 2001)at
University of California School of Information Management and<BR>> Systems, Berkeley, CA. [24]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096405/html/390.html" target=_blank>http://www.nap.edu/books/0309096405/html/390.html</A>><BR>> * 08/01: MINC presentation and outreach at the Asia Pacific Advanced Network<BR>> annual conference, Penang, Malaysia 20th August 2001<BR>> * 10/01: Joint MINC-CDNC Meeting in Beijing 18-20 October 2001<BR>> * 11/01: ICANN <<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN</A>> IDN Committee formed<BR>> * 12/01: Joint ITU-WIPO Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names organised in<BR>> association with MINC, 6-7 Dec 2001, International Conference Center,<BR>> Geneva.<BR>> * 01/03: Free implementation of StringPrep, Punycode, and IDNA release in<BR>> GNU Libidn.<BR>><BR>> * 03/03: Publication of RFC 3454<BR>> <<A
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3454</A>>, RFC 3490<BR>> <<A href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490</A>>, RFC 3491<BR>> <<A href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3491</A>> and RFC 3492<BR>> <<A href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492</A>><BR>><BR>> * 06/03: Publication of ICANN IDN Guidelines for registries<BR>> <<A href="http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm" target=_blank>http://www.icann.org/general/idn-guidelines-20jun03.htm</A>><BR>> * 05/04: Publication of RFC 3743 <<A href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3743" target=_blank>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3743</A>>, Joint<BR>> Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)<BR>> Registration and
Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean<BR>> * March 2005: First Study Group 17 of ITU-T meeting on Internationalized<BR>> Domain Names [25] <<A href="http://www.itu.int/md/T05-SG17-050330/sum/en" target=_blank>http://www.itu.int/md/T05-SG17-050330/sum/en</A>><BR>> * April 2006: Study Group 17 meeting in Korea gave final approval to the<BR>> Question on Internationalized Domain Names [26]<BR>> <<A href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Multilingual+Internet+Work+Progresses.aspx" target=_blank>http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Multilingual+Internet+Work+Progresses.aspx</A>><BR>> * December 2006: ICANN meeting at São Paulo discusses status of lab tests of<BR>> IDNs within the root.<BR>><BR>> On 5/7/2010 9:12 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<BR>><BR>> This is indeed a great milestone!<BR>><BR>> Congrats to our Egyptian friends!<BR>><BR>> --c.a.<BR>><BR>> On 05/07/2010 07:21 AM, Ginger Paque
wrote:<BR>><BR>> Congratulations to the IG workers of the world!!<BR>><BR>> Copy and paste this link in your address bar ... then press enter ...<BR>><BR>> وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر<BR>><BR>> it is the website of MCIT Egypt with an Arabic domain name!!!<BR>><BR>> Congrats MCIT, Congrats Egypt, Congrats ICANN, Congrats world!!!<BR>><BR>> Best, Ginger<BR>><BR>><BR>> ____________________________________________________________<BR>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR>> <A href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR>> <A href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>><BR>> For all list information and
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