If it happens, this will be the first independent review ever of whether ICANN follows its own rules.

But it remains to be seen if I will be offered genuinely independent arbitration, or only a corporate kangeroo court designed by ICANN to ensure that the arbitrators of their choice rule in their favor or that the arbitration process is so expensive that I can't afford to risk having to pay for it if I lose -- which, of course, is what is required for corporate "justice".

Under its Bylaws, ICANN is supposed to have procedures in place for the arbitration, and to have chosen the arbitration corporation in advance. They haven't. Instead, they are trying to ignore their own decision making policies, pick their own arbitrator (with whom they may already have a secret side agreement they haven't yet showed me) eight months after I asked for arbitration, make up the rules for the arbitration as they go along, and impose them unilaterally and retroactively.