Why is Al Gore dis-inviting press and analysts at RSA?

Al Gore is giving the closing keynote at the RSA Conference, and members of the press and analysts are explicitly not allowed to attend. I really don't get the logic behind this. Gore has had great success championing the environment and other causes that are important to him. Instead of being shackled by political party lines, Gore has done well taking his messages directly to people. This is an opportunity for him to get broader exposure and I'm surprised he's passing it up.

I will not be hanging around the Moscone on Friday afternoon anyway, but I would've liked to replay an on-demand video of his views on security and environmental impacts.

• Unified Communications and Collaboration allows distributed parties to meet electronically; to all see and talk with each other. It is not just video conferencing - you can display spreadsheets or documents for all to work from, and use presence protocols to know when people are available. The Internet makes the communications costs real cheap and you can pick up a cam for less than a hundred bucks. UCC definitely saves on travel (fuel and exhaust) and looks to be a technology poised for explosive growth.
• Virtual data centers save on power consumption for heating and cooling as a byproduct of better server utilization and consolidated datacenters. Perhaps environmental economics will drive businesses to virtual application delivery architectures with fewer data centers and an empowered force of tele-workers. The impact on security will be a shift to service-oriented approaches, with a significantly reduced burden on consumers to maintain security software.
• Social networking is here to stay. This is a total generation thing - I confess that I do not appreciate half of how my kids use the Internet today. I do think about where the appropriate security versus privacy trade-off should be. Should there even be one? - my kids wonder what adults are getting all worked up about. And does anyone reasonably expect 60 year old elected officials to draft meaningful legislation on use of the Internet??

I do not know what Al Gore is going to talk about. I do know that even if I do not agree with everything that Al says, he brings unique perspectives that are worth thinking and talking about. Let's hope Al Gore and the RSA Conference folks at least agree to post a video replay of his keynote that we can all watch online after the conference.