Very good.

While I'm happy that the JPA is over, I'm leaning in your same
direction that there
is not much yet to celebrate, and despite the sensationalistic news
titles everywhere
the "independence thing" is very relative.

Put it on a MoU, JPA, AoC, White, Green or whatever color of paper you like,
if we keep insisting in an institutional architecture for the
organization that has the
same group of people involved in policy development, policy implementation,
compliance verification, GAO role, and on top acts as the tax collection agency,
IMHO we'll keep going in the wrong direction.

For example, just to mention one, I'd have all paid supporting staff for policy
development completely separated from the executive side of ICANN and
reporting to the chair of the GNSO.

I'm not an attorney so correct me if I'm wrong. As far as I know being ICANN
a non-profit CA corp with no institutional "members", legally besides to the
Attorney General, ICANN still is accountable to ... nobody ?

BTW, the AoC is a good step forward, but what the heck people are
celebrating ?

Cheers
Jorge