Hello All, In light of the number of team members that will not be attending Thursday's call due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, there will be no substantive material discussed on Thursday's meeting. Instead, I will use the meeting to provide an expanded administrative update similar to the administrative update at the start of our regular meetings. In light of the concerns expressed by some team members about inconveniencing those ICANN colleagues that may be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday, I am coordinating with ICANN Org to minimize/remove any such potential inconveniences. As I expressed several weeks ago, the objective was NOT to have a substantive plenary call on Thursday provided that we were on track with our work assignments. Unfortunately, after almost a three week window in which the group was supposed to review all of the background material and draft questions to ICANN Org, there is a total of 7 questions (1 group question, 4 from ALAC, and 2 from the Registrars). I do want to acknowledge that those stakeholder groups happy with the status quo may have reviewed the material and decided they have no questions. However, given that this Working Group was constituted as a result of the EPDP Phase 2 work, and ICANN Org has invested a substantial amount of time preparing detailed background documentation, I have to be honest with the group that I found the resulting lack of questions a little disappointing. To be clear I want to acknowledge and appreciate the questions that Alan and Roger have submitted on behalf of ALAC and the Registrars respectively. While I fully appreciate that many team members have had illnesses, professional obligations, and other personal conflicts over the past couple of weeks, we had sought and obtained approval from the GNSO Council to use alternates to help with delegating the work assignments. The agenda for our meeting on December 2nd will be to finalize the list of questions to ICANN Org as well as our other outstanding items. Our ICANN colleagues will be sending out a formal agenda for the December 2nd meeting tomorrow. It is critical that we finalize a list of questions to ICANN Org so that we can get responses before the ICANN end of year holiday quiet period. To help stimulate the formulation of questions to our ICANN colleagues I spent a large portion of my weekend drafting proposed questions, and will be sending those questions to the list shortly. Best regards, Michael