Thanks for this update Wendy and indeed the efforts you clearly put in on our behalf at the Board Meeting on the domain reservation issue... Will you be posting the content of this and the earlier email to the Wiki as you formal report to the meeting on the 8th? Or preparing a separate document? And on this matter a NOTE to all ALAC Liaisons and appointees :-> Remember even if attending we are now requesting our ALAC Liaisons, and WG leads/chairs (and indeed RALO Reps) to report as text on your activities, to the Wiki for each monthly meeting in advance of our teleconference even if it is just a link to working documents or meeting notes in your respective collaborative workspaces... CLO -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Wendy Seltzer Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:33 AM To: At-Large writ small Subject: [At-Large] Board liaison report. March meeting, April retreat 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/ _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org