Members of the Names Council,
I am writing to you to explore the possibility of adjusting the WG-C Interim Report Comment Deadline. Currently, the deadline is set to close on January 10, 2000, 18:00 CET. For those parties in the North and South America, this places the comment deadline from 09:00 to 12:00, which significantly reduces the ability to work on comments on the 10th.
I would propose that deadline be adjusted to January 10 at 18:00 in the time zone that the commenter is in. This would create a sliding scale on the globe and give all commenters full use of January 10 to finish comments. Also, it would not pick an arbitrary time zone (like EST or CET) to use for the deadline. A deadline based on the commenters time zone would be a particular benefit to small businesses and individuals who often must work on these issues in the evening or spaced out during the day in between other business.
I would be more than happy to discuss the virtues and flaws of this suggestion. If it is too late to consider this option for this deadline, I would recommend that the Names Council consider it for the next deadline.
Eric Menge
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Eric Menge
Office of Advocacy
U.S. Small Business Administration
(202) 205-6949; eric.menge@sba.gov
www.sba.gov/advo