I realize than many people are exhausted after Paris and that these months are vacation time for many in the northern hemisphere. However, I note two issues that are open for public comment, that are directly of interest to the public, and about which I have not heard a peep out of a single ALAC member: 1) The President's public consultations on Improving Institutional Confidence http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#iic-consultation http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/iic/index.htm Given everything we've gone through -- with the ALAC review, the widespread cynicism, the difficulty in doing outreach, even the challenges to our travel allocations -- isn't this EXACTLY where ALAC should be speaking, where it is perhaps uniquely qualified to speak towards institutional confidence (or rather, lack thereof)? This relates to the JPA and we _know_ that ICANN staff are sensitive to comments raised in this context. (Right Beau? ;-) ). 2) The Registrar Accreditation Agreement update http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#dpc-raa-2008 What are the public implications of the review of this document? I'm not sure what they are but I'm certain there are others here who do. Has ALAC even studied the changes? How do we know how the update affects the public? Both of these are issues for which public comment deadlines approach at the end of the month. Isn't this -- the identification of publicly - oriented issues an the development of publicly-centred comment -- the core function of ALAC? There certainly has been no call to the RALOs for comment. What's happening? It seems that the only ALAC mailing list traffic of late has been people saying they can't meet. :-) - Evan