Two pointers for today: First, Beyond the Verisign vs. ICANN Battle, in businessweek.com, which says that the net's archaic infrastructure needs to grow up. The article makes the "religion" points (without using the name) that interest me -- that governance is "paralyzed by an old guard." That feels like the right description, particularly of the SESAC committee. But I disagree with the article's assertion that SiteFinde broke anything significant. If it did, then ICANN should come out with...an emergency consensus policy saying so.

Second pointer: no new TLDs for a while. While I agree that Stuart Lynn's "chalice" of three new sTLDs seemed like a gift that ICANN didn't need, it's difficult for all the people lined up to apply to believe in this process. And I will bet that we won't be seeing new TLDs for years. I think we'll see a process that outlines a procedure that discusses an approach that recommends a strategy .... Years.