Dear all<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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 .<br><br>
- 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. <br><br>-
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 <b>exec summary, findings, and recommendations.</b><br>
<br>- Open issues we need to close down are:<br><br>(1) Definitions of law enf. and applicable laws. Minor changes requested by Peter - are we comfortable, or not?<br>(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)<br>
(3) How much of the consumer chapter stays in the full report, and how much goes into an appendix.<br>
(4) Background on WHOIS chapter - does it stay where it is, or does it go into an appendix?<br>(5) any final comments on the compliance letter, please? Alice, please can you produce a clean copy of this.<br><br><b>I NEED YOUR FINAL COMMENTS TOMORROW BEFORE 15:00 UTC so that they can be factored in.</b> For the West Coasters, that means today your time.<br>
<br>On publication, I am still aiming to go for it tomorrow, with appendices to follow a week later.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
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Best wishes to all<br><br>Emily<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br><span style="color:rgb(153,51,153)"></span> <img src="http://www.etlaw.co.uk/images/stories/etlaw/etclogo250x60.gif"><br>
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