Dear Emily, dear colleagues, As Russia has the honor to use a separate schedule for its winter holidays, I would like to express my sincere wishes of good luck to all of you and to your families. I will miss Year 2011 - when I have met most of your for the first time and have had a real privilege to work with you on our task, which - I think - has been done very well thanks to all of you! However, Year 2012 should be even more successful and prosperous, as we will have to present, to discuss, to defend, to approve, and finally to implement what we have reported and recommended. I hope that the coming year will be a year of changes, really pleasant changes :) (and not only in terms of new gTLD's :) :) :)). S Novym godom! C Новым годом! Happy New Year! Yours, Michael From: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Emily Taylor Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:00 PM To: rt4-whois@icann.org Subject: [Rt4-whois] Comments on the draft report Hi all I hope you are having a good holiday season. You will have seen that the FTC wrote to ICANN's leadership recently (http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/16/ftc-letter-to-icann) and quoted extensively from our draft report. I wrote a blog piece for Dot-Nxt (http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/12/27/ftc-and-whois) which looks at the FTC's comments on WHOIS more closely in the light of our recommendations and findings. In the meantime, I received these comments today from Nick Wood of Com Laude/Valideus: -------------- I have just had the time to sit and read your report - and I found it to be full of wise, sensible and practical recommendations. Please pass on my congratulations to your colleagues. I support your alternative suggestion for Public comment in 17: a doorway to complete gTLD whois information managed by ICANN in the public interest is something that ICANN should have done 10 years ago! I will be co-ordinating some comments from MARQUES Best wishes Nick Nick Wood Managing Director Com Laude & Valideus -------------- I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all on the Review Team, and the ICANN staff who have supported our work so ably over the past year, a very happy and prosperous New Year! Kind regards Emily -- [Description: Image removed by sender.] 76 Temple Road, Oxford OX4 2EZ UK t: +44 (0)1865 582 811 * m: +44 (0)7540 049 322 emily@emilytaylor.eu<mailto:emily@emilytaylor.eu> www.etlaw.co.uk<http://www.etlaw.co.uk> Emily Taylor Consultancy Limited is a company registered in England and Wales No. 7630471. VAT No. 114487713.