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<p dir="auto">And further to this, please find ICANN’s updated FAQ here:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana-stewardship-questions" style="color:#3983C4">https://www.icann.org/iana-stewardship-questions</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Paul Wilson<br>
APNIC</p>
<p dir="auto">On 11 Sep 2016, at 16:20, Fahd Batayneh wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="11ADED4B-EBE6-4826-96C4-D6D70312949C"><div lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>As the IANA contract nears its expiration on 30 September 2016, there has been a lot of media coverage and attention on the IANA Stewardship Transition. Some coverage has been fair, while others have been misleading and simply inaccurate. ICANN has developed two webpages that explain what one needs to know about the IANA Stewardship Transition.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Five Things You Need to Know About the IANA Stewardship Transition (<a href="https://www.icann.org/iana-transition-fact-sheet">here</a>); and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Answering Some of Your Questions on the Stewardship Transition (<a href="https://www.icann.org/iana-stewardship-questions">here</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Finally, Internet Society’s (ISOC) CEO <i>Kathryn Brown</i> has published a piece in <i>The Hill</i> where she shares a fare insight of what the transition is all about. You can read her piece at <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/295021-inaccurate-rhetoric-must-not-short-circuit-internet-transition">http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/295021-inaccurate-rhetoric-must-not-short-circuit-internet-transition</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>And for those celebrating Eid ul-Adha, Adha Mubarak!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote>
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