Hi, Was reading something that was quoting Strickling and came across: it is critical that this group conduct “stress testing” of proposed solutions to safeguard against future contingencies such as attempts to influence or take over ICANN—be it the Board,staff or any stakeholder group—that are not currently possible given its contract with NTIA. Which got me wondering. To what extent, and how, would NTIA been able to respond to all of our stress tests. Is our answer in all cases: Not renew the contract a few years from now. Is that an answer we should be able to give? If we were to be challenged that some of our stress test go beyond anything that NTIA could have done anything about, do we have an answer? Is the NTIA contract a hammer for all stress tests. Sitting here on Saturday morning in Geneva during a break in the ITU Council meeting, I wonder. There have been accountability problems at ICANN for a while, and various of us do beleive that it has at least been partially captured at various times (we may even beleive that it is currently captured to some degree - though the better part of collegiality indicates we should not talk about that too much). What has NTIA done on those occasions? avri --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com