Dear All, My personal views are that it is a redundant use of time and scarce resources and a wiki would suffice to extract views and solicit consultation. There are far more pressing concerns that the ALAC should deal with. If Alan is happy to work towards putting something together, by all means we will support you where we can. I suspect that the reason the Board may be doing this is that they are being bombarded by lobbyists and the like who have been cornering them everywhere and who won't let them go until their concerns are looked into. Personally I think this is an area that could be resolved by directing the CEO to issue instructions to ICANN Legal to create an internal policy paper [administrative] on the matter on practicable solutions. I would have thought that ICANN since inception would already have clear procedures for this anyway. Once this is developed then it can be put for Public comments but not to be treated like some other technical policy consultation. Cheers, Sala