If you're not here in Vancouver, you're missing a lot. I tell you what you should catch up on from the real-time captioning and then fill you in on what you won't hear on the webcast. Rumors and inside info from the hallways of the conference center. (iPro Radio No. 62 / 10 Minutes) Header Music: "This Is Your Wake Up Call" by Peter Case.

Tonight's podcast is from the ALAC Dinner at which we recount the events from today's GAC meeting that prompted ICANN Chair Vint Cerf to take .XXX off the Vancouver agenda. My table includes Jean Armour Polly (North America), Xue Hong (Asia Pacific), and Sebastian Ricciardi (Latin America). (iPro Radio No. 61 / 12 Minutes). Header Music: "Rocks for Dinner" by Kevin Johnson.

In today's podcast, I provide the briefest of summaries about the  ICANN-Verisign Settlement Workshop held today in Vancouver and note some of the unusual sights at this particular ICANN meeting. (iPro Radio 60 / 12 Minutes) Header Music: "The Bad Old Days" by Kevin Johnson.

Here's the second mp3 (52.3 megabytes) of today's cross-constituency workshop on the ICANN-Verisign Settlement Agreement and the associated .COM Registry Agreement. This second part includes a wide-ranging, open discussion about the issues and remaining questions around the proposed settlement.

Here's the first mp3 (32.1 megabytes) of today's cross-constituency workshop on the ICANN-Verisign Settlement Agreement and the associated .COM Registry Agreement. This first part includes presentations from business users, ISPs, intellectual property owners, end-users and domain name registrants, and domain name registrars.

Before heading off to the ICANN meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, I review the agenda, day by day, and talk about a few of the things I think will be interesting in the week ahead. (iPro Radio 59 / 13 Minutes) Header Music: "Untitled 70s Composition" by yours truly (assembled in Garage Band, my newest software addiction).

I'm back from vacation (and the work that awaited me on my return) and talking about why advertisers on network television should be angry about the fact that the networks to which they pay millions of dollars want to shut down Tivo's new "feature." (iPro Radio 58 / 11 Minutes) Header Music: "143" by Stingray (courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network).

Today's show covers, what else, the ICANN-Verisign proposal and revisits the ICANN-Netsol proposal from 1999. I also recount and react to a weird conversation with an ICANN Staffer from last week. (I think maybe folks are tense down the road there in Marina del Rey.) (iPro Radio 57 / 11 Minutes). Header Music: "Wearing the Day Down," by Kevin Johnson.

Has ICANN outlived its usefulness? It's a question worth asking when ICANN stops reflecting the interests of the Internet community. I go back to first principles, review an apt passage from The Heathrow Declaration, and wonder where do we go from here? (iPro Radio 56 / 10 Minutes). Header Music: "Hey Judy" by Charlie Chesterman.