On 16 Sep 2009, at 12:35, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Given this community's experience with getting ICANN to pay  
> attention to the overwhelming sentiment of public comment by  
> interested stakeholders, your suggestion that ICANN public comment  
> forums are the only reasonable space for ICANN accountability seems  
> almost laughable.

by the same token, those public comment areas can't be ignored either.

multi-pronged methods to get the message across often work the best.

and sometimes they actually do listen.

with the new guy as president and new people on the Board, maybe there  
will be more listening and paying of attention in the future.

a.