On 04/05/2022 11:36, John McCormac wrote:
On 03/05/2022 00:16, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
I was under the impression that an independent organisation like the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network were going to undertake such study. I must admit I haven't followed this so closely - perhaps someone can enlighten us on this?
Seriously though, Christopher's idea of a statistics/economics department for ICANN is a good one as it might have prevented them making what can only be described as Astrological or Numerological "predictions" about the 2012 round.
The suggestion was made prior to the 2012 round when an economic impact analysis was asked by the Board. This was punted to an external consultancy and many other similar requests ever since. In parallel, on the topic of SSR, the DAAR project was born within OCTO ( https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar ) and also the IHTI ( https://ithi.research.icann.org/ ) so ICANN does have some in-house resources that are capable of compiling statistics but if a wider statistics/economics department hasn't been created in over 10 years, think what is the actual hurdle to it? Kindest regards, Olivier