Well, today for me began with an early morning committee meeting, then moved into a "welcome to ICANN" panel, and now I'm in a Board meeting that will last all afternoon. 

The "welcome to ICANN" session, ably led by Paul Levins, had some interesting moments.  The chair-elect of the Governmental Advisory Committee, Amb. Janis Karklins, in answer to a question about why some GAC meetings are closed to the public, indicated pretty firmly that he was working on opening up those sessions.  That's good news.