You're very welcome, Marilyn. This is a brand new issue for me -- in fact, I wasn't even aware it was in play. Like you, I need to study it more -- but it seems to have some major implications for ICANN's future. Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/cell   "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Cade [mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 4:48 PM To: Phil Corwin; Bc GNSO list Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] US and EU could see power diluted in ICANN Thanks, Phil. We can add this to our discussions for prep for Dakar. There are several strange aspects in the proposal, while in reality, business did not take up much of a voice in this. However for those who work in the intergovernmental arena, you know that the CSTD regions do not match the ITU groups of countries, and of course in many other settings, countries self define. Probably the helpful issue to business was sticking with five regions. I have to study this more, however. So am making a comment only, not expressing an opinion. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Phil Corwin <psc@vlaw-dc.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 17:16:42 To: <bc-gnso@icann.org> Subject: [bc-gnso] US and EU could see power diluted in ICANN http://domainincite.com/us-and-eu-could-see-power-diluted-in-icann/   Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/cell   "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey   ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3900 - Release Date: 09/16/11 Internal Virus Database is out of date.