ICANN and Economics

[farzaneh badii]

Thanks Paul.

I also agree with some of his arguments. But regarding this part:

"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.
 "

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 :)

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.




Farzaneh


On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:41 AM Paul Rosenzweig <
paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com> wrote:

> All
>
> This article is worth a read.  The author, Greg Thomas, used to work for
> Verisign.  These days he observes ICANN from the outside.  While I do not
> endorse the entirety of his analysis, he raises some troubling questions
> about ICANN's budgetary planning:
>
> https://medium.com/the-query/icann-and-voodoo-economics-in-wonderland-e76c4c
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