During today's teleconference on New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook V3, we discussed the timing regarding the vote on supporting the report (see http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/name-issues_atlarge-lists.icann.org...) and At-Large minority position statements (see http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/name-issues_atlarge-lists.icann.org...). With the agreement of all on the teleconference, Cheryl agreed to shorten the voting period from our normal "short" poll of 5 days to 3 days. This will allow additional time for discussion, and based on recent voting history, should not adversely impact the number of ALAC members voting. According, to allow the vote to complete in time for the GNSO meeting on Thursday morning, the vote will begin Monday morning, 14 Dec 2009 (the exact time to be determined). This will allow the discussion on the report and minority positions to be extended until approximately 18:00 UTC on Sunday. If you have any interest at all in the issues, please do look at the documents and send your questions or comments. Olivier and I will do our best to address them. And please do remember that the question asked by the Board was not whether to implement a Clearinghouse and URS, but rather how to best do it. Alan