The ICANN Board and Staff have decided to become a PRIVATE non-profit company. They will gracefully be opting OUT of the JPA. The negotiations and decision making were simple, ICANN wanted the .US TLD management in return for playing ball with the NTIA. No deal, said Neustar and the U.S. Government. No deal, said ICANN. No JPA needed. ICANN will be another Jon Postel creation headed for the history books. Earlier this year, USC-ISI tossed in the towel on the powerful RFC editor role. Those are all babble docs now, why babysit those ? The brave new world is the NTIA, NIST and FCC outsourcing more and more root server work to key insiders like Neustar. The .US and .USA TLDs are only a start. ICANN has enough cash in the bank to allow all of their followers to travel for the rest of their life. Some fools will continue to follow that roadshow, along with the ISOC which is also swimming in cash from the .ORG endowment. It is all PRIVATE, just like Syracuse University.