Dear colleagues, due to exceptional pressure of work, I am unable to travel to RIPE 30, and so cannot chair the TLD-WG session. I am happy to say that Marcel Schneider of Switch has kindly agreed to act as deputy chairman. Thanks to him, the show can go on. Unfortunately, I am not able to provide the minutes of the previous meeting. However, a summary of the meeting has been available for a long time (http://www.ripe.net/wg/tld/summary-29.html). I believe that this reflects all the significant business of the meeting. The current workplan, as amended at RIPE 29 is also to be found on the TLD-WG website (http://www.ripe.net/wg/tld/workplan.html). I think it will be helpful if the meeting secretariate can arrange to have copies of these two documents available for participants. After discussion with Marcel, I would like to suggest the following draft agenda. 1. Administrivia - appointment of scribe - agreement of agenda 2. Matters arising from previous meeting at RIPE 29 - adoption of minutes (I suggest deferral - no minutes to hand) - review of action list (only outstanding is completed) 3a. Review of workplan 4. Presentation on RIPE CENTR (Fay Howard) 5. WHOIS proposal (Marcel Schneider) 6. Other business (if any) 3b. Review of Workplan in view of developments at meeting 7. Close I wish you all a good meeting, and look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly (NO8) IE Domain Registry University College Dublin Computing Services -------- Logged at Fri May 15 13:08:28 MET DST 1998 ---------