ICANN and Economics

[Poncelet Ileleji]

+++1 no further commentary from me in this one, well said.

On Wednesday, 5 June 2019, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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@
> 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
>> b82c69?source=friends_link&sk=4a58165ab8445fca613bab1128ef5cf1
>> <https://medium.com/the-query/icann-and-voodoo-economics-in-wonderland-e76c4cb82c69?source=friends_link&sk=4a58165ab8445fca613bab1128ef5cf1>
>>
>> Paul
>>
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