As I understand the role, the representative mentioned is responsible for the interface into the constituency itself and helping the constituency to better understand the issues. I do think that we need to try to move this topic ahead, and so do support the need to begin the development of the constituency statements even over the holiday period. I am sympathetic to the challenge that Marc notes. It might be feasible to support a one week extension to the submission of the constituency reports -- to Jan 12. Marilyn S. Cade 202-255-7348c mcade@att.com -----Original Message----- From: Marc Schneiders [mailto:marc@schneiders.org] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:33 AM To: Bruce Tonkin Cc: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: Re: [council] Constituency representatives required by 15 Dec 2003 On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, at 17:08 [=GMT+1100], Bruce Tonkin wrote:

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.

Given the importance of the topic, I propose to add a week to the final date of January 5. Many people will be off email at the end of this month. When they come back there will be other things to take care of first. If we want good input from the constituencies we need to give them a fair chance to make up their mind and respond. Marc Schneiders