All, As you discuss which WHOIS studies to pursue, I thought it might be helpful to share my best guesstimate on the timetable for next steps with regard to the WHOIS Proxy/Privacy "Abuse" study and the WHOIS Proxy and Privacy "Reveal" study. As you know the staff has completed its analysis of two other study areas - WHOIS "Misuse" and WHOIS "Registrant Identification". Regarding the WHOIS Proxy/Privacy "Abuse" study: The deadline for responses to the RFP we issued was 20 July, and we received three responses. I will be analyzing these over the next couple of weeks and I hope to share that analysis with the Council by mid-August. Regarding the WHOIS Proxy and Privacy "Reveal" study: We are drafting the Terms of Reference now and we will be circulating this draft to the Council, hopefully within the next week. I will ask for Council feedback and any edits or changes within say, two weeks from that point. We will then incorporate those suggestions, if any, and then post the RFP by the end of August. We will allow 60 days for responses (as with the other RFPs), bringing us to November 1. Staff would then likely complete that analysis and share it with the Council by 1 December at the latest. I've updated the WHOIS studies chart accordingly for your reference. Please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can provide any further assistance to the Council as you deliberate on this matter. Best, Liz