Kent, I do agree with you that the actual methods was possibly
something that, if we knew what it was, we might agree was reasonable.
The trouble is, the method remains a mystery.
I personally find it hard to believe that there was no coherant
process by which a list was assembled, names ranked, and choices made.
I personally find it hard to comprehend the degree to which people who
were clearly elements of the process seem to know nothing about the
process.
I do have a hard time understanding how a person such as Mr. Sims, a
partner in a major law firm, and a person of strong opinions, would be
a mere pawn in the selection process.
But such unexpected events do occassionaly happen in life. So perhaps
all of this happened.
Then again, perhaps it didn't and perhaps there is a yet a story waiting
to be revealed.
The increasingly dense and opaque cloud of non-information about how ICANN
was formed and how it reaches its decisions is a situation about which we
all should be very concerned.
--karl--
