Robin, My personal top three issues at present: 1. Ensuring that the multi-stakeholder model is not destroyed by top-level late interventions overturning an often carefully crafted and negotiated balance between the stakeholders. Allowing late interventions to have significant impact really undermines this model, whether it's by the GAC or anyone else. Governments manage long term involvement in all sorts of arena (WTO, WIPO, OECD) all the time. If the Internet is so important then they should be properly engaging in the multi-stakeholder process rather than trying to do an end run. 2. Privacy for individuals. I remain unconvinced by the arguments that individuals who wish to register domain names should lose their right to privacy around their real world contact information. We need a deeper look at the necessity for technical contact details to be provided and for the registrar to be cntactable and have as part of their standard contract a way of dealing with any significant technical problems (domain being used for spam, fraud etc). 3. The high costs associated with the current round of GTLDs which militate against both developing country players and against non-commercial players in registering new GTLDs. Can the board please justify these costs beyond "what the market will bear"? -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/