ICANN and Economics

[Ayden Férdeline]

It is a good piece; thank you for sharing it, Paul.

However the ICANN community has identified some of these issues before. Last year, every single public comment filed by an SO/AC/SG/C objected to the continued increase in staff remuneration, noting it was unsustainable. An issue seems to be with the overall accountability, or lack thereof, of ICANN org, as community input can so easily be cast aside.

I do not know how we address this. It seems apparent to me that most consultation processes that ICANN org runs are box ticking activities rather than genuine attempts to engage with the public and to receive input.

Ayden Férdeline

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On Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:33, 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 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
>> 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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