Afternoon in Mar del Plata. The ALAC mp3s will be up around 6:00 pm local time. They're not bad, but they're large, and I've had difficulty getting the bandwidth on the Wi-Fi for the large uploads. I can use ethernet in the conference center though, so I'll use that when the day's sessions end.

By the way, just because I post something doesn't mean I agree with it. It does mean I think it's interesting, but that could be for any number of reasons. Maybe it's thoughtful...or provocative...or maybe it's just stupid on its face. If you think there's another side that's equally interesting, send me a link or post a comment.

I sat in on the public session between the Registrars and the ICANN Board. Vint Cerf again made strong comments about protecting the interests of the registrant. That seems to be the Board meme for Mar del Plata. How do we project responsibility onto the appropriate parties? How do we protect registrants from registry failure? How do we protect registrars from abusive registrants?

Bruce Tonkin: "...the Security and Stability Advisory Committee is running a public session on domain name hijacking issues on Tuesday 5 April 2005 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Some of the issues being discussed may have a bearing on refinement of the WHOIS and Transfers policies."

More coming.