The problem, Jay as I see it, is this: can ICANN be reformed? I don't
think so - not with the people that are in charge of it now. Why are
they there then? Ira/the DoC appointed them. Why the DoC?
Because in the Inter-agency Domain Name Task force meetings 4
years ago the DoC claimed to have all the answers so when
everybody else stopped snickering, they told them "sure, go run with
it". Why did the DoC want to run is? Large 3 letter corporations
lobbied to the tune of tens if not hundreds of millions to make sure
DoC got the ball. Follow the money.
Remember, this is still all under DoC oversight. ICANN has admitted
they're "in constant communications" with them just like they're in
"constant communications" with foreign governments - which is rightly
the job of the State Department.
This has manifested itself into, once again, the installation of power of
a group, not of the community, over that community - In this sense
ICANN is just a recapitulation of the IAHC disaster; sero sum games
both. The IFWP consensus documents came very very close to this
whole group acting as a coherent one but big monied interests acting through
outside forces not really committed to the community it pretended to
be a part of couldn't let that happen and the thing was derailed faster
then Enron became a national laughing stock.
Kill the head and the body will die. Nothing will get done till the DoC
is taken out of the position of having absolute power. Or thinking it
does.
They had their chance, we've suffered 4 years of them screwing up
and I think that's enough.
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