[governance] ICANNLeaks - Loosing Trust to Maintain the Secrecy

[Milton L Mueller]

I am not sure I agree with the premise that an implementation mistake by the staff constitutes grounds for completely reinventing and rethinking ICANN. Can someone explain the logic of that to me? For example, if the Capitol building of one of the world's first democracies, e.g., the USA, had collapsed due to incompetent construction, would it mean that we should re-think the nature of democracy? 

I think they need to fix the mistake, fire those responsible, and move on. 

The root of the problem, to my mind, is not the governance model but, in this order: a) management problems; b) the rube Goldberg-like complexity of the new TLD program, and c) the more than a decade-long delay in accepting a policy, which means that we are dealing with a sudden flood of 1000+ applications rather than a steady trickle of 10 or so a year, and which, like b), is a product of the intense politics swirling around the program. 

Remember that this has never been done before.  

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> ICANN needs to rethink and reorganize itself!
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