<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 20, 2012 2:26:32 PM GMT+02:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[council] TAS Interruption - Update (19 April 2012)</b><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="FR" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-19apr12-en.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-19apr12-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><h1 style="margin-top: 11.25pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Klavika Medium'; color: rgb(86, 159, 204); font-weight: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">TAS Interruption - Update (19 April 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Statement by Akram Atallah, COO<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span class="date-display-single2"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">19 April 2012</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">ICANN continues to test the solution that we have developed for the glitch in the new gTLD application system, or TAS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">We are also taking steps to improve system performance when the system reopens, and sifting through the data so that we can notify all applicants whether they have been affected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Yesterday we promised to provide more information, and today we have prepared a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/video/cso-tas-19apr12-en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">video interview with Jeff Moss, ICANN's Vice President and Chief Security Officer</a>, answering questions about the glitch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 17.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); ">Thank you for your patience as we work to reopen the application system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>