I'm podcasting today's ALAC meeting. I'll post the sound files periodically throughout the day. This is a test, so quality may be poor. Feedback welcome.

Here's the ALAC agenda, in a crude html export from Word.

Kieren McCarthy, writing in The Register: "The controversial report over ownership of the .net registry was fudged and the evidence is contained within the report itself...."

Dave Winer: "Make some new enemies for a change." Or, at least, don't be afraid to argue with your friends.

The ICANN Compliance Program for Registries and Registrars is worth reading. It's new and was first published on Saturday night. It has implications for registrars, registries and registrants.

Karl Auerbach: "A few years ago I suggested that we know more about how the college of cardinals selects a new pope than we know about how ICANN makes its decisions...."

Eric Iriarte Ahon: "¿Quisiera saber si existe la intención de una política multilingue activa que empiece, al menos, con el documento del Plan Estrategico.?"

Registrar agenda for today. I'm hoping to sit in on the RAA discussion with Tim Cole. By the way, "closed" sessions of registrar constituency meetings are a new development. In the early days of ICANN, they were all open, all the time. Fortunately for me today though, the RAA discussion is part of the "open" session.

At some point today, I think every group except the ALAC and the Non-Commercial Constituency of the GNSO will hold a "closed" session. This certainly makes it awkward for new participants from the host country and region. They're not free to just drop in on any meeting in progress, as they should be. Instead that have to look over their shoulder to see if anyone intends to show them the door.

I've sat in on some these "closed" meetings over the years and, believe me, I've never heard a single thing that couldn't have been said in public.

The National Academies has published Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation.

I know just enough Spanish to know that the television translation of The South Park Movie didn't really capture what was happening on the screen.