The board last met in teleconference Nov. 20. Minutes are posted at <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-20nov07.htm>. An agenda for this month's meeting has not yet been set, but I will circulate it for input when it is available. If there are issues that ALAC would like brought before the Board, now would be a good time to propose them. Might I recommend ALAC's concerns about the Add-Grace Period and an update on the proposed At-Large Summit? During last month's discussion, I requested clarification of the means by which public comments are incorporated into ongoing issue negotiation, particularly in multi-round negotiations. I await further information for the at-large community on how to assure that the concerns of individual users are heard in these discussions as effectively as the representatives of constituency or special interests. --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/