Dear all Thank you for your dedication over the past few days. We have got through a quite amazing amount of work, from major redrafts of substantive sections, to great consensus building on recommendations, to individual comments on the report as a whole. We're not quite at my "Oscar-acceptance-speech-tears-of-gratitude-and-sincere-thanks-to-the-team-who-I-now-count-as-my-personal-friends" bit, but we're nearly there. With the increased pace of new drafts, I would like to set out a plan for how we get to closure, and release this DRAFT report tomorrow . - We're going to sign this off now by exception - if you're not commenting it means you're happy, and are assumed to have read it. - Remember, it's our draft report, and there will be opportunities to edit in future, but you should make sure you are comfortable, in particular with the *exec summary, findings, and recommendations.* - Open issues we need to close down are: (1) Definitions of law enf. and applicable laws. Minor changes requested by Peter - are we comfortable, or not? (2) Where are we on proxies? - is there some agreed text to go into the recommendations now (thanks for your work on this Susan, James and others) (3) How much of the consumer chapter stays in the full report, and how much goes into an appendix. (4) Background on WHOIS chapter - does it stay where it is, or does it go into an appendix? (5) any final comments on the compliance letter, please? Alice, please can you produce a clean copy of this. *I NEED YOUR FINAL COMMENTS TOMORROW BEFORE 15:00 UTC so that they can be factored in.* For the West Coasters, that means today your time. On publication, I am still aiming to go for it tomorrow, with appendices to follow a week later. Alice, - Denise mentioned trying to schedule a couple of webinars, and a call with the Board to take them through the draft report in early December. Please can we try to schedule these. Thanks for staying with it, all. Another 24 hours or so, and then we can all have a large drink/non-alcoholic beverage/tuck into a lot of post-Thanksgiving cold turkey. Best wishes to all Emily -- * * 76 Temple Road, Oxford OX4 2EZ UK t: +44 (0)1865 582 811 • m: +44 (0)7540 049 322 emily@emilytaylor.eu *www.etlaw.co.uk* Emily Taylor Consultancy Limited is a company registered in England and Wales No. 730471. VAT No. 114487713.