Thanks Milton, What Michael Roberts overlooks is that civil servants at the ITU, or whatever organization would presumably take over from ICANN, are not elected either. Also, anyone who deals with the UN bureaucracies will know that the operational efficiencies would be well below current performance indicators. Best, Alain On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > An alternate view to Michael Roberts is at the IGP blog. We are doing a > series on the EC Papers, and here are the first two: > > Payback time: The European Commission papers on ICANN > http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/9/2/4891821.html > > The second EC ICANN Paper: How low can they go? > http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/9/4/4893009.html > -- Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA http://www.jumo.com/ict4dk Executive-in-residence, Schulich School of Business, www.schulich.yorku.ca Trustee, GKP Foundation, www.globalknowledgepartnership.org Vice Chair, Canadian Foundation for the Americas - www.focal.ca O:+1 514 484 7824; M:+1 514 704 7824 Skype: alain.berranger