The Board met by teleconference on August 14. Reports from that meeting have been already provided in other threads, anyway: - The Board selected Paris as location for the second meeting in 2008 (the other application was from Belgrade). - The Board agreed with moving the ICANN office in a bigger space some floors above the present location. - The Board selected Iron Mountain as partner provider of escrow services. As per our discussions, I stressed the need to comply with the various privacy and data protection legislations, which will be made easier by having selected a global company which is a leader in the field. - The Board renewed the .name contract. - .dm (Dominica) was redelegated (a straightforward one). - The Board approved the insertion of the eleven test IDN TLDs into the root. - The Board approved a response to the Ombudsman related to the Ynternet.org case. The response goes largely in the direction of our comments, and I informed the Board that we were soon to revote on Ynternet.org's application. - The Board appointed Vint Cerf as ICANN speaker at the Rio IGF. Moreover, discussions on the Board list in the past weeks were mostly focused on: - Whether a specific code of ethical conduct should be established for Board members and/or ICANN employees and/or SO/AC officers and members. - Whether ICANN should have a role in reclaiming the unused legacy IPv4 space (and whether it should be reclaimed at all, rather than letting its present holders sell it at the foreseeable black market) and in other IPv6-migration-related issues. Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------