Dear fellow councillors, In case you may have missed seeing this, please find the link below to a letter addressed to Rod Beckstrom. ttp://www.icann.org/correspondence/smith-coble-to-beckstrom-15sep09-en.pdf Perhaps at least those of us who were part of the Council working group, that spent close to three years drafting the requirements for a new round of gTLD applications, will find it of interest. Tony Harris