I cannot but note with considerable surprise and disappoinment that when everyone with any thing ever to do with ICANN is currently hotly debating the issue of the stand off between the ICANN board and CCWG on ICANN accountability, ALAC remains so aloof from the issue.... When this should prima facie be the one part of the ICANN structure, as representing the peripheries, that should be most bothered by efforts at concentration of power, or of holding on it, vis a vis the rights of the public. I have not been able to follow the process closely, but if I am right -and please correct me if I am not - even in the earlier discussions ALAC has been most lukewarm to any kind of structural changes that could indeed place an effective oversight of the 'community' over the ICANN board, when as said ALAC is the one group that should be most keen on institutionalising such checks over centralisation of power with the ICANN board. Can anyone explain me why it is so. It really intrigues me, and I am sure I am missing something here. Thanks, parminder