-----Original Message----- From: Suzanne Sene Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 3:06 AM Subject: proposed gac whois workshop for vancouver -- update/status hello everyone, it is with some regret that i share with you a decision that because the preparations from the gac side for the vancouver session have yielded too few speakers/perspectives, we think it is necessary to defer the session until a later meeting. i certainly appreciate all the efforts of the gnso, particularly steve metalitz, to reach out to industry and identify three speakers, and am confident we would have had cctld reps available as well. however, on our side, we have been unable to identify a sufficient number of government speakers to meet the original objective of the session, which was to flesh out the public policy concerns/uses of whois data in the areas of consumer, privacy and ip protection. again, i thank you all for your help in identifying private sector speakers for the whois session, and hope we can return to this in the very near term. the gac gnso working group will take the issue up during its meeting in vancouver, on Monday nov. 28, and i'll be happy to provide you all with an update shortly thereafter. best regards, suz. Suzanne R. Sene Senior Policy Advisor NTIA/OIA