Monday's meetings started early, with a breakfast meeting among ICANN Staff, the ICANN Board, and the GNSO Council. I wish I had had my laptop out (or, better, a tape recorder) while Vint Cerf was speaking about the priorities of the GNSO; regular readers of this weblog would have been pleased to hear the emphasis he placed on the interests of registrants.

I won't do his words justice -- Dr. Cerf is the most eloquent of speakers -- but essentially he said that the overriding value guiding all of the work in the GNSO must be the best interests of the registrants. If we keep that value in mind, he said, the best interests of the registrars and registries will follow. He also added that, thinking like an engineer, he would like to build a better feedback loop for information about ICANN policy development. Specifically, he said that ICANN was good at developing policy but needs improvement in implementing it, evaluating its effect and refining the policy in light of experience. Well said....and inspiring.