Antony: This post illustrates perfectly why I exhorted you to be honest in your discussion. Once again, you have refused to engage with the real issue, and have used red herrings and scare tactices to muddy the discussion of the JPA. You continue to harp on dictatorial governments, which no one in the international community seriously proposes to have a role in DNS root management, and you continue to refuse to discuss directly and honestly the simple and very feasible option of concluding the JPA and having no governments involved. Perhaps you think, along with GoDaddy and many others, that ICANN needs new, additional accountability mechanisms; fine. That's a discussion worth having. Perhaps you sincerely believe that the US government oversight is justifiable in a world of over 200 governments; that, too, is understandable for an American citizen even if almost impossible to justify logically. But to rail on about Tunisia is simply thoroughly irrelevant to the issue of ICANN's JPA, and thus serves only to divert discussion from the real issues. And it conveniently ignores the existence of GAC, which is open to Tunisia, China and all the other governments you profess to fear. When you want to have a real discussion about DNS oversight, come back and let us know.