I have to admit to being awfully frustrated with the ALAC as an organization. In mid-October, ICANN asked for public comment on its proposed transparency and accountability framework. About the same time, I volunteered to coordinate comments on this. I started an ALAC wiki page on the subject. I notified the ALAC of my interest and posted the URL of the wiki page. I wrote the wiki page. I sent the URL of the wiki page to the ALAC. *Three times.* I raised the issue when we were in Los Angeles together. Two times during the LA public forums, Vint Cerf asked for public comments on transparency and accountability. He said it was important because such comments would become part of the JPA discussions with the USDOC in 2008. On November 8th, four days before the deadline, I *again* reminded the ALAC that the comment period was closing and pointed to the wiki page. The wiki page started on October 18th and the comment deadline closed on November 12th. In the month before the closing date, most of the work to prepare an ALAC comment was done. The ALAC had to do nothing more than review the document, approve or revise it, and post it. Since the time I volunteered and drafted the wiki page, the ALAC has held two conference calls and met in person for a week. Yet, the ALAC did nothing at all. You didn't even say, "no, we don't agree with that, we'll draft something else." This is deeply disappointing and points to serious problems with the ALAC as an organization. You need to find ways of working against deadlines, using the energy of people willing to contribute, and paying attention to the evolution of ICANN's ongoing work. Consider this a vote of no confidence in the current ALAC. Bret https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi? alac_comments_on_accountability_and_transparency_frameworks_and_principl es_for_consultation -- Bret Fausett (skype me at "lextext") smime.p7s is a digital signature http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html -------------------------------------