+++1 no further commentary from me in this one, well said.<br><br>On Wednesday, 5 June 2019, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks Paul.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I also agree with some of his arguments. But regarding this part: </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.063px">"The stakeholder community that was supposed to serve as the check and balance on the ICANN organization has gone AWOL — bought off by the promise of a pittance and sung to sleep by fanciful lullabies of castles in the sky.</span> "<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Was there a public comment period about the fanciful lullabies of castles in the sky? I don't think NCSG got the memo about that offering :) </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I think we are falling short of serving checks and balances on ICANN but the problem is also that we are institutionally trapped, the more powerful stakeholders have a lot of influence on ICANN org and we have groups that have no mission whatsoever but to protect ICANN org and the status quo. There has to be some way to change this.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:41 AM Paul Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@<wbr>redbranchconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">All<br>
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This article is worth a read.  The author, Greg Thomas, used to work for<br>
Verisign.  These days he observes ICANN from the outside.  While I do not<br>
endorse the entirety of his analysis, he raises some troubling questions<br>
about ICANN's budgetary planning:<br>
<a href="https://medium.com/the-query/icann-and-voodoo-economics-in-wonderland-e76c4cb82c69?source=friends_link&sk=4a58165ab8445fca613bab1128ef5cf1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/the-query/<wbr>icann-and-voodoo-economics-in-<wbr>wonderland-e76c4c<br>
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