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Back in NYC, finally, after a long and remarkably low-energy board meeting on Friday. We have a new Vice Chair, Roberto Gaetano, and a shared commitment to make the transition to a new Chair by the end of next year — this is Vint Cerf's last year as an ICANN board member.
The big events were the renewals of .biz/.org/.info and a gesture towards progress on internationalized domain names. As I said publicly in several settings, I'd like to see the LSE report on the GNSO taken seriously and adopted wholesale — this would lower barriers to participation and generally make the GNSO's job much more coherent. Along those lines, the contracts and the bylaws need to be brought into connection with eachother — from my point of view, the GNSO's key task is the creation of consensus policies that can be mandatory for registries and registrars.
I'd also like to see meetings improve, become more open, and produce results that can be acted on and interacted with remotely. It would be good to have much more cross-cutting structured dialogue, rather than panels or serial comments. I'm not pushing for just two meetings a year, because it seems that we need them for a host of purposes that aren't limited to policy-making — things like outreach, regional participation, and workshops on various subjects. I'd like to try the Idea Tournament that Jordyn Buchanan has proposed.
The board is changing, and our discussions are frank and robust. I'd like to see these discussions reflected in the minutes of these meetings, and I've been assured that this will be happening soon.
Right now, I have a much more mundane concern: the display on my ThinkPad T41 no longer works reliably. Maybe it was the travel, maybe it has indigestion, maybe it simply has had enough data and is ready to take a break. Breaks all around. I'll be offline for a while.
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