Dear Folks, there is currently some discussion amongst the Board and SO/ACs, about the Friday session at ICANN meetings. The sessions starts at 8:00 with Board Committee Report, then continuing with SO/AC Chair Reports and then the ICANN Board Meeting. Traditionally, this has been poorly attended and rather boring to sit through. There is discussion whether this could be replaced with written reports to be filed on the ICANN Web Site, thus shortening the ICANN week by one day. Any note of thanks would take place in the Thursday afternoon Public Forum & Wrap up. The response I have provided so far, is that whilst I am not against having our ALAC report published instead of spoken -- for those of you who have attended, I have kept my spoken report to less than 3 minutes but for some, the reporting is really tedious and long --, I am concerned that this would shorten an already packed week. In particular, the ALAC Executive Committee meets on Friday afternoon and this is the time when we have access to the CEO, COO, CFO etc. This is the time when we can really interchange with Senior ICANN staff. I am therefore concerned that ICANN not having a morning session on Fridays would mean our afternoon session would be scrapped too. Also, in San José, we also used the Friday morning for LACRALO capacity building, so this day was needed. I'd be interested in your point of view, so that I can relay it to the Board members who have asked me my point of view. Kind regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair