Dear Councilors, I write on behalf of Graeme Bunton and Steve Metalitz, the co-vice-chairs of the Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues (PPSAI) Working Group. They and the rest of the Working Group members would like to inform the Council that the WG has decided that it would be more productive for it to hold an intensive working session during the week of the upcoming ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires, rather than a separate face-to-face full-day meeting either just before or after the ICANN meeting. The WG arrived at this decision after substantial internal discussion, the outcome of which was the conclusion that it would be difficult to ensure adequate representation across the different stakeholder groups, constituencies and interests currently represented in the WG at a separate face-to-face meeting. Conscious, however, of the need for effective progress on its work and in order to optimize its members¹ time during the Buenos Aires meeting, the WG decided instead to hold an intensive working session open to the community during the week itself. As the WG intends to publish its Initial Report for public comment within the next few weeks such that it will be in a position to review public comments received by the time of the Buenos Aires meeting, it believes that this intensive working session will serve to facilitate its timely progress toward a set of consensus recommendations in its Final Report. The WG thanks the Council for its continuing interest in the progress of the WG and for selecting it for a further face-to-face meeting in Buenos Aires, following a successful and productive initial session in Los Angeles last year. The WG chairs will be happy to provide the Council with further feedback concerning the effectiveness and use of such face-to-face meetings from their perspective as well. Thank you and best regards, Mary Wong (on behalf of Graeme Bunton and Steve Metalitz) Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong@icann.org