Dear All, Please find at the following link - https://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/irt-to-gnso-council-15dec16-en.pdf - a letter that the Thick WHOIS Implementation Review Team sent to the GNSO Council. The GNSO Council has requested that this letter is shared with this Working Group for your information as the subject concerns all registries and registrars using a thick model and is not limited to the specific issue of transition from thin to thick WHOIS. Best regards, Marika Marika Konings Senior Policy Director & Team Leader for the GNSO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: marika.konings@icann.org<mailto:marika.konings@icann.org> Follow the GNSO via Twitter @ICANN_GNSO Find out more about the GNSO by taking our interactive courses<http://learn.icann.org/courses/gnso> and visiting the GNSO Newcomer pages<http://gnso.icann.org/sites/gnso.icann.org/files/gnso/presentations/policy-e...>.