[governance] NTIA says ICANN "does not meet the requirements" for IANA renewal

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 11.03.2012, at 03:28, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>  The object of the “public interest” standard is to give basically any government, or any group of governments, the ability to object to and veto any new top level domain addition they don’t like. It also gives the trademark lobby a chance to lobby NTIA against any new domains they don’t like – even if they meet all of ICANN’s stated criteria and policies.

My take on this is that those lobbying will either lobby the Government(s), or ICANN (staff). 
For the consequences this does not really matter, unfortunately.

So in the end, it all comes down to whether the community trusts ICANN to behave. Unfortunately for ICANN this is sometimes not the case.

Not saying Governments are any better - but we got to this situation by the ICANNs track record...

Daniel
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