Colleagues, Having described the changes I propose to make in travel support allocation for the purpose of improving on the rather limited record of enabling informed contribution to policy making by individuals, I want to direct your thoughts to advice offered the Corporation Board. The Corporation Board has recently authorized the President and CEO to make commitments concerning offices, staff and future meeting venues. One of the commitments made concerns placing staff permanently, and the attendees of future general meetings recurringly, in Turkey. The current leaders of the Executive Branch of that state are conducting the affairs of that state in a way that appears to be contrary to the principle of enabling informed individual participation in, amongst other things, network policy. This RALO may wish to advise the Board to explore alternatives which meet the goal for which Istanbul was selected, and do not also risk harm to the purpose for which the ByLaws were amended in 2004, creating an advisory entity on issues relating to individual users of unique endpoint identifiers. Recently also one of the governments in this region has disclosed that it has engaged in, and is committed to the continuous engagement in, unprecedented, outside of now-historic totalitarian regimes, collection of all electronic communications, both session state, and content, which are within its technical means, which, given what we are in a position to know, as participants in the technical coordination of unique network endpoint identifiers, is all of this region's and most inter-regional instances of communication. This RALO may wish to advise the Board that the actions of this government place the stability and security of the continuous exercise of technical coordination of unique endpoint identifiers by the Corporation as presently constituted as a California domiciled 501(c)(3) exercising a contract awarded by that government in doubt, and render the thesis advanced recently for the limited role of the ITU in network policy significantly less compelling. There are of course the issues which arise from the ordinary execution by the GNSO, the GAC, the SSAC, the ASO, the ccNSO, the RSSAC, and the ALAC for which the RALO has the opportunity to determine if formal advice, or informal comment, is appropriate, and what advice or comment to advance. I propose to make this process less haphazard, and improve the communication of issues to the four RALOs, and ensure that the instructions to the ALAC from the body of the RALO are communicated faithfully, and that the reports from the ALAC to the body of the RALO are timely, complete and in writing. Again, these are proposals for change, contingent upon election. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon