All, please pardon me for my insistence on deliverables, but I reiterate my request: do we want to state a formal position on the new proposed .xxx contract? The public comment period expires in two days (see http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-05jan07.htm ) - of course we can be slightly late as usual, but if we want to say anything, this is the moment. Otherwise, I will convey feelings informally and as a range of opinions by individual ALAC members, but it's not the same thing. If we want to make a statement, someone should volunteer to put together a first draft asap, by gathering the opinions that were posted (sorry for not doing that myself, I'm traveling and will barely make it to the conf call). Regards, PS I've taken the liberty to add this and other issues to the conf call's agenda on the wiki. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------