It's All Star day. Not a big deal here in Luxembourg, where the big events today are a workshop on DNS Security and the GNSO Public Forum and Council Meeting.

Here is my photo album from Luxembourg. Joi Ito's photostream is here.

ICANN has made a recent practice of publishing newsletters in conjunction with its meetings. The Luxembourg newsletter is available here (in English, French and German).

Monika Ermert: ICANN unter VeriSign's Knute. (Google's machine translation to English here.) Machine translation is notoriously bad but you can get the gist of the story. I remember once when I tried to translate a German story about the .KIDS proposal -- the software told me that someone was proposing a top-level domain for "young goats."

If you want to listen to some of the recent podcasts, the two I recommend are Roberto Gaetano's ALAC presentation (19.0 MB) on recent events at the Board level and the ALAC new gTLD roundtable (39.4 MB). Good stuff!

Kieren McCarthy is in Luxembourg, with an article titled "ICANN blog." He's stealing my schtick.