Being a "free American" I'm concerned about the day when I might be 
required to lie to you. (Assuming that day hasn't already come.) As you 
all know, the PRISM companies are all forced to lie. Changing hats. many 
of you know I also run a small spam filtering company and at any time I 
could get an BSA letter that would require me to fork off a copy of 
every good email I process to the NSA. So I wrote up this warning to my 
customers about considering if I'm compromised.

http://www.junkemailfilter.com/blog/2013/06/29/junk-email-filter-and-nsa-prism-spying-policy/

I have to tell them that my word can't be trusted and that I might be 
required to lie. Similarly the US has turned ICANN into liars because if 
we asked ICANN if they have been compromised the answer would be NO. 
Thus what they say has no information.

The commercial stakeholders are affected as well. I'm going to assume 
that none of these companies like the idea of the NSA installing a back 
door into the heart if their business. And other governments (known to 
us Americans as "foreigners") would rather not have the US controlling 
their countiy's TLDs. And US government control isn't going to make the 
registrars and registries happy.

I'm smelling the opportunity to bring the stakeholders together into a 
coalition to resist the real or imagined takeover of ICANN. We have an 
opportunity to bring everyone together on the same page what it comes to 
liberty issues.

Anyone else see opportunity here?