Hello Robert, Those of us that have actually participated in the GNSO PDP process sadly understand that this template has been overtaken by events and is widely disregarded by those that are active in the policy development process. The template points to a 95-day timeline to complete a policy development initiative -- the GNSO is currently incapable of working at that pace. By way of example, the Issues Report for the new gTLDs PDP was released on 5 December 2005 -- so far, its been 439 days and counting. At one point it was indeed possible to work within the suggested time frame; that was when the DNSO was willing to have open working groups where everyone with an interest in DNS policy could contribute (you didn't need to be a constituency appointee). An example was the Reform WG tasked with forming recommendations on DNSO Reform. That group completed its work within the established time frame. Of course, since the recommendations put forth by the public within that timeframe threatened the existing stakeholders by calling for the establishment of a registrants constituency within the DNSO, no more open Working Groups were allowed and reasonable timeframes thereafter went out the window. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news