Thank you very much Liz and thanks to the Staff members who cooperated to produce this analysis as well as the comparison of the bidders.  .  In this week’s Council meeting, a few minutes are allocated for a very brief mention of the analysis, but any major discussion regarding whether or not to do Study #3 will be planned for the 28 October Council meeting.   In anticipation of that, has the question about use of the FY11 funds allocated for Whois studies been answered, i.e., do the $400,000+ budgeted funds have to be spent in FY2011 or may they be carried over and spent in FY2012?

Chuck

From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Liz Gasster
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:44 PM
To: council@gnso.icann.org
Subject: [council] Staff analysis of WHOIS Proxy and Privacy Abuse Study RFP responses

All,

Attached please find staff’s analysis of the Proxy and Privacy “Abuse” study based on responses received from independent researchers to the RFP we previously published.

We would be glad to answer any questions or provide additional information.  The analysis will be posted tomorrow and may be found at:  http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/.

Thanks, Liz