Dear all, please find attached (plain text below) the draft statement four your ultimate appraisal. For almost all parts, I integrated the edits by Kathy into Milton's initial draft, and for a couple of paras (minors) I've reverted to the the initial phrasing with a few changes based both on Kathy's contribution and my own understanding. I left only one comment in the attachment to have your views if you think it is politically desirable, or efficient, to have a (discrete) reference to an USG statement commenting the WGIG report. I felt that Carlos concern to avoid "doing policy on case-by-case basis or on individual opinions" is already taken into account in the current statement. But what about the idea of "a temporary freeze on any gTLD move (new/deleg/redeleg) until an independent, qualified pluralist working group (...) prepares a detailed report with recommendations."? As such, it may sound a bit discordant with what we have in the report now, unless we change the tone and the emphasis of our statement - so this is up to all of us to decide what is our position. Beware, we only have two days including Sunday. Regards, Mawaki