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Well, there seems to be a new "structure" emerging to see what it can do - some people have been harping on RALOs as the new feature of the at large model, have to see how it goes.

ICANN needs these people. They have good ideas about how to respond to the public interest in domain name management.

By what mechanism did any relevant public authorize these people to act as their representatives in the ICANN process?

John Berryhill said:

ICANN needs these people. They have good ideas about how to respond to the public interest in domain name management.

By what mechanism did any relevant public authorize these people to act as their representatives in the ICANN process?

By what mechanism has any relevant public authorized any of ICANN's activities since ICANN killed at-large elections?

By what mechanism has any relevant public authorized any of ICANN’s activities since ICANN killed at-large elections?

Indeed, it is the same question.  The take-away here being, I suppose, that there is some collection of guardians of the public good which are better than the current ones.

Perhaps Louis XVI could have more constructively engaged the Third Estate, but I do admit that Napoleon was a better civil administrator for France.

As long as I can remain court jester, the palace politics don't bother me that much.

I, extremely, object to the characterization of ICANN as some sort of evil cartel driven to world domination. I think it is far too easy for people to point fingers at ICANN and make accusations of corruption, when the matter is clearly one of ineptitude. The paranoid conspiracy theorists insist that ICANN has become little more than its own evil empire, answerable to no-one. I have several reasons for believing that this can not be the case.

There are reasons that have nothing to do with an evil agenda which may allow for ICANN being answerable to no one. It isn't as though they refuse to answer, they have simply made themselves unavailable to the questions. That is a completely different matter.

Their agenda is clearly not global domination, but to aquire the world's supply of frequent flier miles and to see how many different places in the world they can power-lunch while ignoring the peasants.

It may be taken as a given that any sinister plan, requires at least some minimum degree of actual planning.

Everyone knows that evil cartels with aspirations to global domination have an evil overlord, a leader who is both evil and effective.

An evil overlord rules with an iron fist. Muscular hypertrophy of the right hand doesn't count.

An evil overlord would never rely upon Brownian Movement as an organizational model.