Gordon,
Not to mess with someone's coughed up hairballs, but...
On the ITU process issues, the MoU gambit actually revectored
ITU history a bit. The MoU was not only not approved by the
Plenipotentiary Conference (the ITU's governmental governing
body) last November, it also became the basis for tightening up
the entire MoU process by making it clear the staff (of which
the Secretary-General is head) doesn't have the authority
to commit the ITU to MoU involvements. The problem, by the
way, went beyond just the gTLD MoU.
This is part of an age-old tussle at the ITU going back
to the first Secretary-General, Louis Curchod in 1869,
where the staff thinks it is the ITU, and the governmental
members respond with reminders that indeed they - the
governments - are the ITU.
best,
--tony
