The Board meeting is underway. The titles of the resolutions are up on the monitor, and it doesn't look like much will happen here. Later: The adopted Board resolutions are posted here.

Add: I was wrong. Right out of the box, Dr. Cerf apologized to the ICANN community for the way the .NET agreement was handled. Is there any precedent for that? I can't remember anyone on the Board ever doing anything like this in the past.

I'm surprised that I don't see a resolution on the list relating to new TLDs.

A review of the "performance and operation" of the GNSO is now underway.

The Board passed a carefully worded resolution designed to increase transparency around its telephonic meetings. I'm not sure I've parsed it correctly, but from the discussion it sounds like the Board's discussions will remain private but the voting will be transcribed. Board members also will have the opportunity, if they so choose, to make a statement for the record. If that's the correct reading of the resolution, I'm not sure what has actually changed. Clearly the intent of the resolution was to do something more, but I'm not sure what. I'll try to get an explanation after the meeting is over.

By the way, the Board resolution was in response to a Reconsideration Request I filed several months ago.

A new ICANN staffer asked me this week why I was here in Luxembourg, "in the tent" in her words, since I am sometimes critical of ICANN and its processes. I explained that it was the same reason that I can wear a U.S. flag lapel pin and still think poorly of "a - certain - high - level - U.S.- elected - politician - who - will - not - be - named - here - because - I - still - need - to - get - through - customs - when - I - get - back - home." Is that a particularly American way of working? The alternative is "America (substitute: ICANN), Love it or Leave it."  That's worse.

"In the tent" was a fairly accurate choice of words given the meeting facilities here in Luxembourg.

Add: Okay, here's the story on the transparency resolution. My reading was correct, but as explained to me, the change is that the transcription will both encourage Board members to make comments for the record and make it easier for them to do so. It also should make it easier for staff to post a summary report in a timely fashion. We won't know if it works this way in practice until after the next telephonic Board meeting. If Board members decline to make a statement, we'll have no change from the status quo at all. I hope that won't happen.

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.