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The administration of the DNS is a world responsibility to safeguard a resource that belongs to the whole world.
Icann HAS to be accountable to someone.
The requirement to be regularly monitored against "performance-targets" and responsive to measures needed to adhere to such targets is surely essential.
I agree that there is a separate issue over WHO sets the targets, but surely it should not be ICANN themselves (though they would have a significant input).
In terms of political reality, DoC can always pull the plug on ICANN if they want.
I suspect that the regionalisation and diversification of many of these functions may take control beyond DoC in the end though.
I repeat: The administration of the DNS is a world responsibility to safeguard a resource that belongs to the whole world.
ICANN therefore cannot be unaccountable.
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