Dear Colleagues, Nothing has changed since our call on Thursday: we have not received any application from volunteers willing to serve on the IFRT. I understand Peter's guess that the main reason could be the good performance of IANA (and the CSC, in fact). However, if that is the case, it is in our interests to ensure that it remains so in the future. It was also suggested that another reason might be the holiday season in the Northern hemisphere (actually, this raises another question - why every year we are expected to perform heroic and urgent deeds during this period?) As we discussed during our call, today we should issue a new call for another 2 weeks. I did not sense any objection to this during our call, so I hope we all agree. In addition to the new call, I have some questions we all could think about: - Should we change the message that we send to the ccNSO members and the wider ccTLD community wrt IFRT? - How can we identify and target particular individuals from the ccTLD community and convince them to apply for the IFR? - Should we consider changing the approach we currently use when we look for volunteers? Any ideas? - How can we avoid wasting time on activities during preriods when nobody is around to respond to them? Is there a way? Thank you! Kind regards, ]{atrina