Dear Steve On behalf of the WHOIS Review Team, mandated under the Affirmation of Commitments, I have the pleasure to inform you that our final report has now been completed for publication. Alice Jansen will provide you with access to the files through Dropbox (as the file sizes are too big to send through email). You will observe that, in the light of feedback received from the community, including our meeting with the Board in Costa Rica, we have made extensive changes to the presentation of the findings and recommendations. I hope this clears up any ambiguities in the previous wording. The thrust of the findings and recommendations, however, remains largely unchanged. On substance, our chapter on Compliance (Chapter 4) is completely rewritten, and forms the basis for stronger findings and recommendations than in the previous draft. I understand that the next stage in the process would be for the Board to conduct a public comment, but for the WHOIS Review Team this is the end of our process. It has been my privilege to serve as Chair to the WHOIS Review Team, and work with such a strong team of colleagues, now friends, all of whom have served as volunteers. They have been immensely generous with their time, sharing of deep expertise, and most of all a willingness to consider opposing views, and other perspectives, which was the key to finding consensus recommendations. I wish the Board and the ICANN community well in your ongoing WHOIS deliberations, which I will observe with interest - from a safe distance! Kind regards 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. 7630471. VAT No. 114487713.