Forwarded on behalf of Ron Sherwood. --------------------------------------- Quoted from the At-Large list [A]s indicated before, I perceive the planned ICANN Board – GAC meeting end of February in Brussels with some unease (reminding me to some unpleasant situations during the WSIS process ;-) Milton’s blog post on IGP supports my bad feelings – see: The US Commerce Dept position paper for the ICANN Board negotiations http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/29/4737705.html And some more: US wants veto power over new TLDs http://domainincite.com/us-wants-veto-power-over-new-tlds/ There is an old African proverb saying: “Where elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers” (let’s see who will be in the grass ;-) ------ End of Forwarded Message