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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">MTC Communications, Inc. supports the goals of this policy.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">We support viewpoint 3, "Organizations that were on the waitlist before 2019-16 should remain eligible if their holdings exceed a /20 OR a /18. The draft policy under discussion specifies
a /18 total holdings for grandfathered orgs, while the current waitlist policy (2019-16) specifies a /20."
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">We would also support a permanent change to holdings of a /18 with the request size of a /22 or smaller, so long as those resources cannot be transferred until 60 months after assignment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Eric E. Lee</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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