Agree with Avri. Once we have an agreed approach to the solution we can brief Washington DC people. Before that, we could actually be exacerbating the perception of some in DC that NTIA's exit leads to uncertainty and risk. From: cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:43 PM To: cwg-stewardship@icann.org Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] [] A new proposed US bill? Hi, On 23-Nov-14 00:35, Allan MacGillivray wrote: Robert - I agree that we have to pay very close attention to what is going on in DC. We should consider briefing Congressional staffers ourselves to supplement what ICANN may be saying. Wouldn't this be something to do once we had a solution we could argue was a community wide consensus decision. As far as I can tell we are not there yet, and perhaps not even close. avri