As an ICANN Director, planted by Esther Dyson, you should be very familiar with processes that operate in the dark and claim to shed light on the world. The world is not fooled. More than a few people see thru the opaque ICANN charade, and they are routing around it. It is not clear that you really know what the "internet model" is. One of the main features is that the .NET routes around damage. There is no central committee to determine what or where the damage is. Despite your efforts to control the .NET via ICANN, and also the FCC, it will not be possible. That of course does not prevent people like you and Esther from trying. For some people view you is entertainment, tilting at the windmills (or webmills) of the .NET. With respect to the "internet model", as a Google Groupie, you may want to note the excellent talk presented by Van Jacobson[1]. Since Van continues to engage in technical activities (unlike the never ending stream of .NET politicians), Van is starting to see how the old "internet model" may be wrong, or the hard way to look at things. He compares this era to the time when people thought that the Earth was at the center of the solar system. Some things could be explained, but other theories did not work. Moving the Sun to the center, made the puzzle easier to solve. Your outdated views about "internet models" and the implicit view that ICANN is at the center of the .NET are not reality. As you continue to tour around and tell people that the Earth is flat and at the center of the solar system, you may want to note that people give you a polite nod and then move on. I hope that everyone gives ICANN a polite nod, and moves on. As Van Jacobson points out, these are really good times. We should all be happy we have low-cost broadband digital dial-tone, and build from there. ...the broad-band .NET community no longer has to be delayed and derailed by groupies that have no clue... [1] A New Way to look at Networking [...a new way ? or a different way that some people always knew...] "Today as in the 60s problems go unsolved due to our tunnel vision and not because of their intrinsic difficulty. And now, like then, simply changing our point of view may make many hard things easy." Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of ... all » Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's been studying networking since 1969.