On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 18:31, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:

1. 99% of what ICANN does is plain old economic, legal, or cultural
social engineering. The claim that ICANN is so very technical that it
can not be comprehended by normal people is a claim that does not
survive inspection.

For example, the recent discussion of price caps and trademark use of
domain names are discussions without a whit of internet technical
complexity and are exactly the kinds of things upon which normal people
everywhere routinely have cogent opinions.

I challenge you to try putting that theory into practice. Take a random member of your family or a neighbour who does not work in IT, plunk them down into a PDP of your choosing, and see how far you get.

It's not just comprehension of the basics, it's the level of technical. legal, bureaucratic and diplomatic skills needed to navigate the simplest of ICANN processes. It's been made overly complex deliberately to provide barriers to entry for the non-committed.

Furthermore I daresay you may, through your own depth of experience, overestimate the lay person's understanding of how the Internet works.

- Evan