<WG co-chair hat on> Colleagues, we're on the brink of some major changes to the root server system. ICANN may well take some landmark decisions on this at their meeting at the end of the month. My personal opinion is there is a short (and closing) window for the WG to influence the decisions that may be taken in Seoul. Although yesterday's discussion on the root scaling studies at the WG raised a number of issues, I didn't get a sense that the WG was coalescing around a particular point of view. So here are my questions: [1] Do you think we should try to send some sort of statement to ICANN that could be fed into its decision-making machinery? Should this be done for the Seoul meeting? [2] If the answers to [1] are "yes" what sorts of things should be in that statement? [3] If the answers to [1] are no, is there anything that this WG should be doing about making some response to the scaling study reports? Please note too that some of the usual suspects amongst the WG members may be unable/unwilling to comment publicly because of potential conflicts of interest. <WG co-chair hat off>