Some of us always knew that the transfer of oversight from the USG to a committee of insiders actually reduced oversight unless ICANN did something to upset its vested interests. The term "empowered community" was a doublespeak oxymoron from the start.
The only surprise is that it took such a miserable issue as this for others to figure it out.
The real sadness is for the massive amounts of wasted time and effort spent in the futile hope that the departure of the USD from ICANN oversight would lead to improvement to the MSM. I'm not sure if a change of jurisdiction would have mattered much given the pride taken in getting governments out of ICANN oversight.
I really miss the Strickling letters.They weren't much, but spoke like alarm sirens next to the oversight that now exists.
- Evan