Marc's $.02

my $.02: ICANN has stirred up a lot of interest and debate about the future direction and workings of the internet. if you believe in participatory democracy and policy making (governing) by "consensus" then that's good news. what has not worked well is the inclusion (yet) of any formalized structure within the organization to provide a capability to sift thru this debate/interest to glean out the nuggets to include in its policy making deliberations, to at least give outside observers the appearance that the process is fair and balanced. the impression that ICANN is sucking up to the large, multinational corporations by favoring them in instances of copyright/domain name disputes reinforces the negative "mindshare" conception of ICANN as unfair and biased.

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