[At-Large] Board liaison report. March meeting, April retreat

[Wendy Seltzer]

The minutes from last week's Board meeting have now been posted:
<http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-27mar08.htm>

In addition to the domain reservation issue, raised at ALAC's request
and which the Board passed on to the GNSO Council (see my previous
message), the Board discussed the mid-term review of the JPA, GNSO
Improvements, new gTLDs, and other reviews.  As requested, I asked that
the at-large public get input into a more transparent process in the
President's Strategy Committee considering ICANN reforms in conjunction
with JPA reform or transition. I also raised the importance of giving
the ALAC review enough time to conduct a useful and productive inquiry
-- I encourage all interested parties to contact the ALAC review team at
<alacreview at westlakenz.com> to have your experience considered.


The Board will be meeting for a retreat later this month, and is being
encouraged to consider big strategic issues as well as specific policy
matters such as new TLDs.  I have asked that registrant and end-user
issues, including contracts, compliance, and the possible sunsetting of
 expired consensus policies, be considered in these discussions.

If you would like me to put other items on the Board's agenda, please
let me know.  After the retreat (which is not a formal meeting), the
next formal meeting of the Board is 29 April 2008 (agenda items by 19
April).

Thanks,
--Wendy

-- 
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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