Hello All, As an outcome of the decisions made at the Council meeting today, under section 8(a) of the Policy Development Process (see http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA) "a. If the Council decides not to convene a task force, the Council will request that, within ten (10) calendar days thereafter, each constituency appoint a representative to solicit the constituency's views on the issue. Each such representative shall be asked to submit a Constituency Statement to the Staff Manager within thirty-five (35) calendar days after initiation of the PDP." Thus each constituency must select a representative to gather the constituency's views on the procedure for use by ICANN when ICANN is required to give consent or a contractual amendment is required to allow changes in the architecture or operation of a gTLD registry into a constituency statement, and provide this to the ICANN staff manager. I recommend that each constituency endeavour to appoint their representative by Monday 15 Dec 2003, and provide the constituency statement to the ICANN staff manager by 5 January 2004. Given the proximity to the holiday period around end of December/early January in many countries, the sooner this work can commence the better. Regards, Bruce Tonkin