My friend Huey suggests that the ICANN Board and the interests represented within it, which are largely conservative and wish to retain ICANN as a US-centric structure, have not yet perceived their strategic error. When the question first arose three years ago as to where ICANN should be perceived to be located, those who suggested non-US Beijing, Jakarta etc were ruthlessly suppressed by the unwitting traditionalists. Had the Board resisted the California bunker mentality, they would now be in the reverse position to the below, where ICANN's current 'culture' will be sapped by its defensive stance for the forseeable future, until demography (and it shoulod be admitted that the figures are entirely representative) is satisfied. Whereas they could have been carried to the Capitoline if they had managed public expectations in the opposite manner. The British have a word for the person who carries out such management - a 'spin doctor'. ICANN need one. The consultants they currently retain are only doing the job in an national manner, if at all. Preliminary total registration numbers by region are: Africa - 787 Asia/Australia/Pacific - 93,782 Europe - 35,942 Latin America/Caribbean- 6,486 North America - 21,596
