Dear wg, Just to give you a short update after the Address Council phone meeting last night. As last years AC chair Barbara Rosseman have now left the address council and started working for ICANN our communication channels towards ICANN should be even better than ever. (With both John Crain and Barbara among ICANN staff). Accoding to our internal procedures we had an election for AC chair and after due discussion and election Mark McFadden was elected as AC Chair and Hartmut Glaser and myself co-chairs. As a consequence of the ICANN reform the AC is supposed to appoint a representative on the ICANN nomination committee. The role of the nomcom is to elect some of the future ICANN board members. (The AC still has a task to elect some). Our long term goal is to establish an open and transparent process for this election, just as the ICANN board member elections of the past, but with the given time frames (the nomcom will start its initial work close to february 1st) the AC will elect a representative to the nomcom. Since I am on the AC to serve the RIPE NCC community and the best interest of the internet community, please feel free to give me or other AC-coord representatives input with respect to particular nominations as soon as possible. -hph