Item for today: what is going on in Carthage?
ICANN staff is working away on the Issues Report called for by President Twomey's request to Bruce Tonkin. No action is being taken on new TLDs, as far as anyone can tell. RegistryPro wants permission to register names at the second level (a sensible request, and one they shouldn't even have to make). It looks like the Pro request will go through. And info wants to implement RGP — which will require changes to several appendices.
Meanwhile, where is WLS? And is VeriSign about to reintroduce SiteFinder?
It is frustrating to have these meetings scheduled in places and at times when, in order to attend, everyone has to drop their daily activities and hang around for almost a week. I have personally enjoyed very much going to these meetings, but now that I can't go I wish they were online instead of in-person.