One clarification is needed in the text Mikey did send out.
The current process is for the SSAC to give advice to the Board...
That is not correct. SSAC can give advice to anyone, and each recommendation do have a specific target audience. This has been a bit unclear historically, but is I claim more and more clear in the recommendations themselves. The subset of the advice that SSAC and ALAC give to the board can nowadays be tracked on this page: <https://www.myicann.org/board-advice> If you for example look at SAC007 that is mentioned, it does explicitly include recommendations for registries and registrars. That said, what I think you Mikey want to point out is that there is a gap between whoever makes a recommendations and whoever is to implement it. That I agree with. For interactions with the board, SSAC and ALAC now do have the tool I link to above to track the progress. We in SSAC are happy to try to close the gap and I am prepared on listening on proposed changes to for example our publication procedure. Patrik Fältström SSAC Chair