In other words: "Please don't practice armchair quarterbacking, if you do not like the way the ICANN policies are going, join your respective community and participate in the consensus building process!"
Been there, done that, got several nice shirts. In case it's not obvious, ICANN is about as egregious a case of regulatory capture as you could imagine. Despite pious noises to the contrary, ICANN exists to serve the registries and registrars who pay its bills. It doesn't help that a chronically weak board has never been able to exert more than nominal supervision over the staff. While the ALAC and other peripheral groups have some modest effect around the edges, e.g., we might get them to say that pre-registration is bad, the bottom-up stuff is mostly a way to try to deny the authority that governments, particularly the US government, have over ICANN. At this point, effective changes to ICANN will only come via government directives and lawsuits in US courts, not through bottom-up wishful thinking. R's, John