On 27 March 2013 15:08, Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> wrote: this is not then.
this is not the same situation.
You're right. It's worse. ICANN 1.0 wasn't anywhere near the money magnet of the current rev. Tens of millions of dollars are now at stake, in a way they were not during the kindler, gentler (and arguably goofier) "Postel culture". We have vested interests injecting themselves into our issues when the cause suits (after all, the CEO of [insert nasty corporate icon here] is, on occasion, an Internet end-user too). We have lawsuits and Ombudspeople and politicians weighing in, never more than a threat away. The mischief-based incentives for gaming long ago were overtaken by massively financial ones. ICANN, it is wisdom, turned public interest gTLD management into a massive land-grab. The gaming threats are more numerous and more nasty now than they were back then. - Evan