I'll let Wendy address most of your questions. As for the RALO's endowing legitimacy to the ALAC: I strongly disagree on the grounds that the ALAC is so perfectly engineered to keep the community of internet users on the outside looking in, powerless except to observe, that no grandstanding about an ICANN approved committee of an ICANN approved commitee that hosts other ICANN approved committees - which is what a RALO is - really has any meaning except to add yet another box to ICANN's very Byzantine organizational chart. As for RegisterFly - there have been reports that the public comments and complaints about RegisterFly have suddenly vanished, without comment, without explaination, from ICANN's website. I'd certainly like to know the full and true story here.