Yes, Rod is in Sydney. That has been widely reported via Twitter.com. Rod has also been low-key and having breakfast with selected insiders. Some of those people have chosen to claim he is the new CEO. That is not the case. Rod is watching key meetings and joked about people being crazy enough to select him and whether he would be crazy enough to accept. ICANN has morphed into a WIPO+WTO and people now expect it to solve world hunger. PDT is out of control. The U.S. Government would need to gut ICANN and start over. Rod may not be the person to do that.