Gene,
> Based on actions we have seen to date, I believe we must be ready
> for ICANN to make decisions on issues in Berlin REGARDLESS of the
> quantity or quality of responses to their comment process. I still
> hold out hope (I hope that I am not the fool).
Quite so, if by *ready* you mean that when ICANN acts unilaterally
and without mandate, the wheels of government (yes, good ol
USG) are in mesh to open an investigation of what on earth the
functionaries in the DoC think they are doing. There is at least a
pretense that this process is accountable; who's holding the
parties to it?
I think if any quasi-governmental body touches the WIPO report
with a ten-metre pole, it should have a lot more than a ragtag
bunch of protesters breathing down its neck -- even if it is not an
election issue. Yet.
kerry
