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The ultimate irony is that at the moment of ICANN's demise, it had exactly one friend -- Verisign -- the very entity that it was designed to control. And that "friend" was allied with ICANN only because it was contractually obligated.
-- Bret
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Not all that unexpected .... the REAL golden rule has always been: "he who pays the gold makes the rules". When I negotiated the original NSOL/ICANN agreements in Septmeber of 1999, the REAL closer was us agreeing to pay ICANN a big chunk of change on signing (I sort of recall it was $2,000,000 - much of which went to pay the Jones-Day bill) and agreeing to paying something on the order of $2,250,000 a year going forward.
Over the years as ICANN's budget has grown to a ludicrous degree, Verisign has allowed itself (while feigning reluctance) to remain the main financial backer.
I there was ever a hope for a *real* independent ICANN it would have had to learn how to live within some reasonable means and have differsified its sources of money.
It did neither, so the resulting symbiosis with its source of money is only to be expected.
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been there, done that
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