ICANN's Latest Report to DoC (and sTLD applicants)

During my term - a period of more than 2 1/2 years - not a single new TLD application came before ICANN.

However, I observed the glacial pace of negotiations, negotiations that involved matters of utterly no relationship to the stability of the internet but were simply arbitrary constraints on business and economic matters, or layers of overprotection of trademarks. When the contracts came up for approval, I generally indicated that I disliked the contracts. However in view of my desire for there to be new TLDs I voted to adopt the contracts.

Several times I pointed out that this hyper degree of regulation was inappropriate and added nothing to internet stability.

The response I received was silence.

That was the same response when I suggested concrete and specific measures that would improve the stability and security of the DNS. There was, and remains an institutional unwillingness to engage in those matters that actually affect the stability of the internet. And there were other factors at work - I am of the opinion that ICANN's former president would have ignored me had I brought news that the building was on fire and he would have sat there until some other board member announced the same thing.

The point of this is that as a general matter I believe that many of ICANN's board members really did not understood their roles, did not understood the technology, or never seriously considered what was the proper scope of action for ICANN.

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