Thomas, Jean-Michel Having attended a couple of ICANN meetings (Stockholm, Montevedeo, MdR, and Rome), and on-lined more, from Berlin onwards, I agree with both of your major points -- registrar face-to-face time can be extended from the ICANN Staff provisioned "slot", and usefully incorporate face-to-face time with participants other than registrars, and getting most issues out on day one, with resolution(s), if any, (leading to on-line ballots where appropriate) on days subsequent, is a good model. We will need to relieve ICANN Staff and the Host of the place-and-time management responsibility, since their usual practice is 9am-to-3pm-Tuesday. Additionally, the note taking or information relayed to the rest of the constituency this time really hasn't happened, which can't be helpful to some -- I got clicks when I dialed in, and basically Amadeu's blog is the better source of information. I get better "breaking news" from ABC's political news division that uses email to in addition to the web, than from ICANN that simply posts to the web at most once a day. A better web site would be good too. Eric