* The board's frequent failure to do what the bylaws require them to do, e.g., reconsideration, .XXX. ...
How hard would it be to assemble sufficient detail on this?
Enough to document it to a dispassionate observer? Not very hard, just look at the bylaws and read through the board minutes. Enough to persuade the board that they're not doing their job? Good luck.
* The so-called Ombudsman (Ed Hasbrouck is right, the board has never
properly appointed him) is simultaneously ineffective and out of control.
I thought that the Board recently rectified that situation.
I went through the minutes of all board meetings since the beginning of 2009, and although there are a variety of references to the Ombudsman, most recently to his idiotic attempt to be the politeness police, nowhere do I see any resolution appointing anyone to be the Ombudsman.
The deeply entrenched role of senior staff -- in making policy decisions as opposed to facilitating stakeholder consensus -- has been a deep concern of mine.
That is ICANN's biggest problem, a weak board that has never properly controlled and managed the staff. R's, John