At the adult's table
I'd a peculiar thought yesterday. I was sitting in a group of 30 or so people, and I couldn't tell if anyone other than ICANN staff wasn't there to advocate for an outcome beneficial to their employer, and I couldn't figure out which person(s) were there for Verisign or Godaddy (although the key staffer just joined ICANN from Verisign).
An odd moment in the history of a private industry self-governance and transparency for the Internet. We're going over the proposed new rules of the game for the third round of new top-level domains, so its odd that an informed observer can't tell where "industry" ends and "regulator" begins.
