[CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: ICANN Board Comments on Cross Community Working Group (CWG) Draft Transition Proposal for Naming Related Functions

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Indeed that may have been the plan all those years ago for a democratic
ICANN 1.0

The question before this group now is whether ICANN 2.0 is the right
home for IANA into the indefinite future.  Part of the problem is that
ICANN has grown and taken on so many more roles and has insulated the
Staff and the Board to such an extent from the community, that it is
hard to see how any acceptable solution could include ICANN as the
inseparable home of the IANA names function.  Back in the day, one could
look at ICANN as IANA+, but these days, ICANN is a 100+ million dollar
corporation run with all the trappings of a for profit corporation -
with an unassailable Board that is answerable to no one but the State of
California and the USA. 

I doubt that today's ICANN is what anyone had in mind way back when.

avri

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