I would appreciate it if the constituency could discuss the role and activities of the NCUC Policy Committee (whose function, as I understand it, is to consult with constituency members to develop policy positions). While the Constituency is to be commended for their work in the area of WHOIS/Privacy, this is not the only DNS issue. We need policy development in a number of other areas, including: 1. Domain name tasting/ add grace period policy 2. A review of established consensus policies such as the Expired Domain Deletion Policy that has been circumvented by every single registrar in the aftermarket game 3. Registrant Data Escrow policy that appears to only be honored in the breach 4. Redemption Grace Period policy -- the Phase Two initiative was supposed to have been started well over three years ago 5. revisiting the UDRP 6. IDNs 7. Policy regarding warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registries or registrars 8. Data Mining Policy 9. Policies regarding DNSSEC implementation In my view, the constituency should be doing substantially more policy development work, and should be involving many more constituency members in these activities. While I commend individual members (like CDT) for communicating directly to the ICANN Board on matters such as transparency and accountability, these too are areas in which defined constituency positions would be helpful. I'm looking for more dialogue and more group-think and more participation. Any help in this general direction (through a structured approach) would be appreciated. My two cents. Danny ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited