Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you, as an internet user since the early 1990's, to express my concern over the changes to the above. May I remind you of the purpose of ICANN, its importance to the internet and foundations upon which it stands? On ICANN's own website, there are words such as "multi-stakeholder model" explained as "This is a community-based consensus-driven approach to policy-making. The idea is that Internet governance should mimic the structure of the Internet itself- borderless and open to all." Are we to understand that these are just words or is ICANN flying in the face of what the internet exists for, and why? I am sure, having watched The Richard Dimbleby Lecture given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, that he would not be an advocate of what is proposed; neither would Vint Cerf! I implore you: stand by the words on your website; build policy for a better internet, a more secure internet; lobby ISPs and registrars to adopt technologies such as DNSSEC and IPv6; embrace the community that is the internet. However, it must be done in the spirit and for the greater good of the internet, and for for corporate greed or self-gain. Yours sincerely, Duncan Robertson