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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">My take on this:<br>
http://www.internetnews.me/2012/04/12/icann-takes-fail-to-a-whole-new-level/<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF88638"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> africann-bounces@afrinic.net [africann-bounces@afrinic.net] on behalf of Glen de Saint Géry [Glen@icann.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 April 2012 14:33<br>
<b>To:</b> mail=africann@afrinic.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AfrICANN-discuss] TAS Temporarily Offline<br>
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<h1><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TAS Temporarily Offline<br>
</span><span class="date-display-single"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">12 April 2012</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">ICANN constantly monitors the performance of the TLD Application System (TAS). Recently, we received a report of unusual behavior with the operation of the TAS system. We then identified a technical
issue with the TAS system software.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">ICANN is taking the most conservative approach possible to protect all applicants and allow adequate time to resolve the issue. Therefore, TAS will be shut down until Tuesday at 23:59 UTC - unless
otherwise notified before that time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">In order to ensure all applicants have sufficient time to complete their applications during the disruption, the application window will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any questions, please contact the gTLD Customer Service Center (CSC) via the CSC portal.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Glen de Saint Géry
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GNSO Secretariat
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>
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