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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was one of the problems I and others predicted. </span>It will be extremely difficult to change since you will be going against the interests of ICANN, which does not want more effective checks
from the multistakeholder community, and the other constituencies. </div>
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On Jun 5, 2019, at 10:35 AM, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:41 AM Paul Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<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/icann-and-voodoo-economics-in-wonderland-e76c4c<br>
b82c69?source=friends_link&sk=4a58165ab8445fca613bab1128ef5cf1</a><br>
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