Izumi,
One background information, which I think may be usefule is, that there was a suggestion yesterday for the meeting with the Borad members to try to provide "advice" on policy issues since ALAC is essentialy an "advisory" role to the Board so the sentiment there was, in my interpretation, let us do the job - which does not mean that we don't have any in-depth dialogue, but rather, that could be a part of the dialogue.
Advice to the Board is not just chatty and superficial advice. It is ALAC's institutional role to provide advice to the Board, but the communication of advice is not limited to meetings with the Board, ALAC has to come up with substantive papers and reports on key issues and communicate them to the Board. Meetings with the Board are special occasions; sometimes they may be used for emphasizing certain important advice which has not been headed, but we have to treat them as special. Siavash