The following email is sent on behalf of your Co-Chairs, Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey. All, Attached is a paper prepared by our Org support team at our request. It deals with 2 aspects of our work. The first, which we have already discussed but not yet reached full consensus on, is the scope of the Holistic Review and whether it would, in essence, be the home of any work on ICANN 3.0. You will know that our view is that whilst it would be open to a Holistic Review to recommend that an SO/AC should consider structural changes in order to improve its effectiveness, efficiency or inter-communication with other SOs and ACs it would not be for the Holistic Review to make recommendations of what such structural changes should be. That work would be done as part of Continuous Improvement. We think it is important that we are all aligned on this. However, there is a more fundamental point that we believe needs to be addressed - one of timing. It is clear from the ATRT3 report that the Holistic Review was to follow two cycles of Continuous Improvement work in the SOs and ACs (the ‘every 7 to 8 years’ reference). It is also clear that ATRT3 envisaged the first holistic review within 1 year of the Board’s approval. However, the Board’s view was that this was not feasible so replaced the ‘first holistic review’ with this Pilot Holistic Review and raised a number of matters it viewed as information gaps that this review should address (see the bullet points from the Board Scorecard at the end of the paper). In our view, there is an open question of whether the Pilot Holistic Review should be running now, or whether it should be postponed until we have data, experiences, lessons learned, and an understanding of how each SO and AC has approached and interpreted their continuous improvement efforts, to inform our work on some of the deliverables. In light of this context, we think it is important that we use the call on Monday 9th to have a full and frank discussion on the practicality of completing our work now. There are three clear, possible options: 1. We continue to progress this work, while the CIP is still being implemented. 2. We completely pause our work until a time TBD, when we have some data from the CIP. 3. We continue to work on some deliverables, with the understanding that some deliverables may be dependent on CIP data. Regards, Sophie & Chris -- Jessica Puccio Sr Coordinator, Review Support and Accountability Projects Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN<http://www.icann.org/>)