Hi John, On 7/21/15 11:30 AM, John C Klensin wrote: > John, I think many of us have developed very low expectations of > ICANN and, as you certainly know, the situation you describe > above (often known as "capture") is only one of the problems. > One result is that there have been a lot of decisions in recent > years that start from "if we let them near that, they will mess > it up and/or figure out a way to turn it into a profit center" > and then moves to some sort of workaround. The difficulty with > that approach is that it lets them off the hook and, in the long > term, may make things ever worse. I see things quite differently. It lets *us* off the hook when we don't exercise the technical discretion that we are supposed to have with regard to the Internet architecture and forces ICANN to separately develop the capabilities necessary to technically support themselves. They are already a long way down that path, and while some of that is a good thing, too much can lead to divides between the organizations. And we ARE supposed to provide something of value to the ICANN community as to others. Eliot
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