1. Robert Guerra was again not in attendance, nor did he submit the SSAC liaison report (again). In my view, a recall of this representative (who doesn't even show up for NARALO meetings either) is now warranted. 2. The ALAC decided to create yet another structural layer on top of all the other byzantine structural layers that they have imposed on the user community. They have formalized the existence of the Executive Committee (that's the group that has been in charge of the horrible agenda process we have had for the last year) and has given them the power to act on behalf of the ALAC in urgent situations. My thanks to Beau Brendler for voting against this proposal (introduced by Alan Greenberg) that saw no regional or local discussion before it was introduced for a vote. 3. No issues raised by the user community were discussed, neither were any such issues placed on the agenda by the Executive Committee. 4. As usual, a whole bunch of liaison reports were not submitted. 5. No RALO reports were submitted 6. No WG reports were presented 7. No Cairo recap was offered 8. The Letter to the Board on participation issues has not been finalized 9. No issues were raised to be brought to the attention of the Board 10. No ad-hoc committee reports were presented 11. A decision was reached in the last few minutes of the session to hold a special briefing on the RAA amendments within the next three weeks. 12. No response was provided to the many users that wrote into the RAA-WG with their concerns. Another typical ALAC session with the bulk of the time devoted to internal navel-gazing.