Hi,

Indeed that may have been the plan all those years ago for a democratic ICANN 1.0

The question before this group now is whether ICANN 2.0 is the right home for IANA into the indefinite future.  Part of the problem is that ICANN has grown and taken on so many more roles and has insulated the Staff and the Board to such an extent from the community, that it is hard to see how any acceptable solution could include ICANN as the inseparable home of the IANA names function.  Back in the day, one could look at ICANN as IANA+, but these days, ICANN is a 100+ million dollar corporation run with all the trappings of a for profit corporation - with an unassailable Board that is answerable to no one but the State of California and the USA. 

I doubt that today's ICANN is what anyone had in mind way back when.

avri