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ICANN Bid for Independent Status Gets Cool Reception
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During the two years I spent on the ALAC, ICANN's board an staff acted out a shared fantasy that it was just a matter of time, and not very much time, until the DOC wrapped up its contracts with ICANN at which point ICANN would become master of its own destiny, subject to nobody but the bottom-up consensus based processes that have brought us such acclaimed public successes as the Add Grace Period, the .MUSEUM TLD, the Verisign sellout^Wsettlement, and the Registerfly collapse and likely loss of all their registrant info.
Meanwhile back in the reality-based community, the USDOC has made it quite clear that they're never letting go of ICANN, and in view of the alternatives, that's OK with anyone who depends on the Internet to actually work.
So this particular exercise is consistent with ICANN's past behavior, but since it has no chance of changing anything, I wouldn't waste a lot of time getting upset about it.
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