Did anyone ever have a chance to ask this question? During the meeting, I saw on the ICANN web site that Ed Hasbrouck goaded the ICANN staff into revealing two hitherto secret amendments giving six-month extensions of the existing .aero agreement, signed on behalf of ICANN by Kurt Pritz. There is nothing the board minutes related to .aero since a 2006 motion that directs the staff to negotiate a new agreement. I believe that all previous registry agreements and amendments have been subject to board vote, so I wish I had a chance to ask how come staff now gets to amend this agreement without telling anyone including, apparently, the board. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
If someone has a chance at the public forum, a registrant in .AERO (me) would like to know the status of the domain. The sponsorship agreement expired in 2006, so at this point it's operating without any contractual authority.
Of the three sTLDs that came up for renewal last year, .MUSEUM got a six month time extension in March, and .COOP is supposed to be reapproved this week, but there's been no action on .AERO since June of 2006, a year ago, when the staff was supposed to negotiate a new agreement.