Most of the issues related to Internet governance discussed and promoted via IGF and ITU, IMHO are hyperbolic attempts to grasp a little bit of control of something that does not require global control rather than coordination and collaboration on different planes. I see ITU's maneuvers as desperate attempts to be once again in control and more relevant in the standards development arena and common resources allocation and administration such as addressing and name spaces, enforcing the mandate of member states in policy development processes, screwing up multi-stake holder and bottom up approaches. As others noted, unless there is a substantial modification in the way ICANN has been incorporated, there is not much the ITU can do to have veto power over BoD decisions. As I mentioned several times in the past, it is a shame that ICANN is a member-less organization, since changes to its articles of incorporation and bylaws would require the vote of its members, ie the community, ie us. Right now the community has almost no control whatsoever on that plane, and the several attempts like the ATRT, supposed increased transparency (as Kieren recently noted on his blog where are the BoD papers/briefings for the last meeting?), the never ending dancing chairs game to take a spot on the titles of nobility distribution game, etc, etc, are borderline close to a joke. I believe we should take in account what is going on around, but as Franck said, ignore all the noise and keep focus and a steady effort to make ICANN right, we are far far far away for that to be true. My .02 Jorge