<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 16px"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr" id="divRpF799063"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> THACI Elvana<br> <b>Sent:</b> October 18, 2012 9:18 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dave@difference.com.au">dave@difference.com.au</a>; <a href="mailto:robin@justice.org">robin@justice.org</a><br> <b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>; HIBBARD Lee; MALINOWSKI Jan<br> <b>Subject:</b> Comments Relating to Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Association with regard to New Generic Top Level Domains<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; DIRECTION: ltr; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear Mr Cake, dear Ms Gross</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please find attached some Comments Relating to Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Association with regard to New Generic Top Level Domains for the information of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and the Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) in ICANN. </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thank you for your attention.</span></p> <span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB">Elvana Thaçi</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 7.5pt"><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB">Programme Officer</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="es">Interent Governance Unit</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="es">Information Society and Action Against Crime Directorate</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="es">DG I - Human Rights and Rule of Law</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB">Council of Europe</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB">F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="en-GB"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB">Tel. </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="fr">+ 33 (0) 3 90 21 56 98</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="fr">Fax. + 33 (0) 3 88 41 27 05</span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="fr">E-mail: </span></font><a href="mailto:elvana.thaci@coe.int" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB"><font color="#17365d"><span lang="fr">elvana.thaci@coe.int</span></font></span></font></a><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"> </span></font><font color="#17365d" size="3" face="Calibri"><span lang="fr"><br> </span></font><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="fr">Internet:</span></font><a href="http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB"><font color="#17365d"><span lang="fr">http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/</span></font></span></font></a><font color="#17365d" face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font></div> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div></body></html>