Funny you should mention that, Bill ... > Yes the public interest research has been very internally oriented, pretty > much surveying staff and docs. What will be needed next is a look at the > world outside ICANN, how the concept has been employed in telecom and other > sectors around the world, then think about whether any bits of that may be > relevant by analogy etc. Frankly I think they should hire a couple hungry > academics who do international telecom policy (not me), doing this properly > will need a solidly researched information base. > Just published, an RFP for DNS industry study: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2015-09-25-en FYI-ing here in case anyone is interested. Maria > >