Dear NCUC, this mail is a first note after a while – from mail in my box I can see that some of you were wondering if I still exist. To make it short: I was plagued by three problems – my harddisk crashed, the second loss within a year, and this time it took part of by backup away too; my health was not always the best, which may be related to the third problem: our organization is in a crisis ever since a support application did not work out, and there is no agreement yet among us why this happened, and how to get over it. I am sorry that I could not be available for NCUC and especially in relation to GNSO affairs which I see on the list. I am now doing as much as possible reading through the "piles" of e-mail and hope to be available again from now on. If you have a young and strong replacement, now living in a country like Cambodia where it is still more tricky than in some other places to recover from an harddisk crash (and from some medical problems), and in a time zone where the next GNSO teleconference is not at 2 a.m. - I am happy to turn over my role to someone else. But I will try, from now on again, to live up to your expectations. FYI - I hope to be also at the GNSO and other ICANN events end of March in Wellington. Norbert Klein