Most of the public forum this morning at the ICANN Lisbon meeting was taken up with presentations about what ICANN is doing:  the President's Report [not yet available online], the report on the organizational plan, reports about the new web site [coming soon] and the new public participation site.  The increased transparency efforts are very good indeed. [Joichi Ito is taking pictures.]

There was a discussion about the RegisterFly situation -- again, very good communications at this meeting, with a fact sheet available, and an experienced group of commentators available to speak from the stage (from the At Large Advisory Committee, the registrars, and the Security & Stability Advisory Committee, among others).

Now we're in a public forum about new top-level domains, and Bruce Tonkin is pointing out that "natural persons no longer necessarily associate themselves with countries, but with international communities of interest."