Here's the agenda for this week's board meeting: <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-19mar08.htm> I have already requested that ALAC's communication to the Board on domain name holds be considered under "other business." I'd also like to raise registrant and user concerns relating to enforcement for addition to the Riga Workshop Agenda. If the group has comments on the GNSO improvements beyond what has circulated on the list, I'd be glad to know. Proposed agenda for the 27/28 March 2008 Special Meeting of the Board: 1) Approval of Regular Board Meeting Minutes from New Delhi Meeting 2) Discussion of Mid-term Review of the Joint Project Agreement between NTIA and ICANN 3) Discussion of NeuStar and Afilias AGP Modification Proposals 4) Update Discussion on New gTLDs 5) Update Discussion on GNSO Improvements 6) Update Discussions on various Bylaws-Mandated Reviews 7) Update Discussion on Meetings and Budget Issues 8) Update Discussion on Paris ICANN Meeting 9) President’s Report 10) Discussion of Riga Board Workshop Agenda 11) Briefing on Budget and Management Process Reporting 12) Other Business note also: C) Extension of Comment Period for Report of the Board Governance Committee GNSO Review Working Group on GNSO Improvements – The Committee acknowledged receipt of a comment from Philip Sheppard on behalf of: The Commercial and Business Users, the Intellectual Property, and the Internet Service and Connection Providers constituencies requesting a 30-day extension of the comment period to 25 April 2008. The Committee engaged in a detailed discussion about the rationale for the request for extension and agreed unanimously (of all attending) to the following resolution: Resolved (__), the Executive Committee hereby extends the public comment period on the “Comment Period for Report of the Board Governance Committee GNSO Review Working Group on GNSO Improvements” to 25 April 2008, to permit sufficient time for: i) the parties requesting the extension to have sufficient time to provide to the ICANN Board their proposal, including the details of the consultations and nature of the support that they have gathered; and, ii) to allow time for an additional call to the community to file submissions relating to all aspects of the posted report. -- 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/