The minutes from last week's Board meeting have now been posted: <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-27mar08.htm> In addition to the domain reservation issue, raised at ALAC's request and which the Board passed on to the GNSO Council (see my previous message), the Board discussed the mid-term review of the JPA, GNSO Improvements, new gTLDs, and other reviews. As requested, I asked that the at-large public get input into a more transparent process in the President's Strategy Committee considering ICANN reforms in conjunction with JPA reform or transition. I also raised the importance of giving the ALAC review enough time to conduct a useful and productive inquiry -- I encourage all interested parties to contact the ALAC review team at <alacreview@westlakenz.com> to have your experience considered. The Board will be meeting for a retreat later this month, and is being encouraged to consider big strategic issues as well as specific policy matters such as new TLDs. I have asked that registrant and end-user issues, including contracts, compliance, and the possible sunsetting of expired consensus policies, be considered in these discussions. If you would like me to put other items on the Board's agenda, please let me know. After the retreat (which is not a formal meeting), the next formal meeting of the Board is 29 April 2008 (agenda items by 19 April). Thanks, --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/