Board meeting today! So far, no smoke coming out of the chimney in Marina del Rey. On calendar: .NET, .XXX, and .ASIA. By contrast, I missed the conference call this morning for the GNSO's whois task force, but the mp3 was available within minutes after the meeting concluded. That's transparency.

Vittorio Bertola: "[I]f the market wants privacy, the only reasonable thing that the supply side could do is provide it."

Ross Rader: "This is a very useful statement - that I agree with almost completely. "

EURid: "Today, another milestone was reached in the creation of .eu. Following agreement with ICANN in March, the .eu top level domain has now been put in the internet root and, as our email address and web site demonstrate, it works!"

Monika Ermert: "While at EUrid in Belgium they continue to wait to put the last signature under the agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the first "multinational country domain" was quickly entered after the US Department of Commerce gave the green light."

Kieren McCarthy, writing in The Register:  "ICANN skewed the process to select a new owner for the .net registry in favour of incumbent owner VeriSign."  I don't disagree with that, though I'm withholding judgment until the final Telecordia report is released and the Board makes its decision. It still boggles my mind that none of this was considered relevant, but I hold out hope that we'll get an explanation.

Also in The Register: "Paul Kane made his points bluntly, accusing ICANN of being a quasi-regulator and a 'United States private-sector company' from which sovereign nations would not accept orders." Yeah, well, they're not going to take orders from CENTR either. I expect the text of the referenced letter to be posted on the ICANN web site.