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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Friends and colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I trust this finds you well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">ICANN will be holding
<b>The ICANN DNS Symposium</b> in Madrid, Spain on 13 May 2017. This one-day event is focused on all aspects of the Domain Name System (DNS). Join members of the ICANN organization to explore ICANN's current initiatives and projects relating to DNS research,
operations, threats and countermeasures and technology evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Who Should Attend?</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">This event is geared to those who have a foundational understanding of the DNS and an interest in DNS operations, engineering, research and standards
development or operational security. Remote participation will be available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">More on this event; including a preliminary agenda, can be found on the symposium’s webpage at
<a href="https://www.icann.org/ids">https://www.icann.org/ids</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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