ICANN drawing broad fire
Ross's comments are only the tip of a very large iceberg of criticism tracking ICANN. The scope is reflected in the demands, now met, to extend the public comment period and use next week's ICANN meeting in Vancouver as a public forum on the .com deal. The reaction is captured best at the Coaliton for ICANN Transparency's site (www.cfit.info).
But if I had to pick one ICANN sin among them all as the worst, I would say it is ignoring the bottom-up, consensus-driven, out-in-the-open decision-making that has been key to the growth of the internet.
November 22, 2005