Dear all, Please find included the draft Statement of Purpose for the ad-hoc group to review the IDN Fast Track Process. The main purpose of this group is to assist ccTLDs with an interest in the IDN ccTLD, and particlur in a review of the Fast Track process in preparing input and feed-back into the review. It is envisioned that his group may submit on its own behalf, however without implying the Council or the ccNSO as whole support the comments, and secondly, assist individual ccTLDs in preparing their comments and input. Proposed prelimenary chair is Giovanni Seppia, however the first task of the group is to nominate a chair, to be confirmed by Council. T^he group is open to all ccTLD with an interest in the topic. Finally it is proposed to close the group at the BA meting in June (the expected date of closure of the review process). Please reply to the list if you have any concerns/ questions regarding the Statement of Purpose by Wednesday 28 January, 17.00 UTC. If no comments, or questions the secretariat will tak ethe next step of setting up a work space etc. In the meantime we will also start alerting the community of this initiative, Kind regards, Bart