Jim Fleming says:

Prior to 1998, many people (geeks) said there would never be a “Domain Name Industry”.

Artificial scarcity was used by insiders to ensure their R&D funding and control.

ICANN was only formed to do Market Trials and to end the Artificial Scarcity. The theory was that eventually a truly open and competitive “Domain Name Industry” would evolve. Along with that, an open and competitive Protocol & Platform industry would evolve.

The “ICANN Experiment” has run it’s course. Reruns are not interesting.

The First.Internet a young child may see is now a TV and IR Remote. Internet@TV from Samsung is in BluRay players, with HDMI and DLNA streaming video support. [Sesame.ST.]

Some people may claim Internet@TV is not the Internet. OK, fine, sounds like a plan. The main point is the first DNS a person may see is NOT the ICANN PBS-like flavor.

The second Internet a person may see, will likely be some WIFI/MAX service to a small hand-held USB device. Again, they will not see an ICANN DNS. [DNSMASQ]

The third Internet a person may encounter will likely be via a Video Game Console. See .E3 in .LA. Again, ICANN DNS will not be suitable.

Eventually, a young person may encounter a diskless PC, connected to a UNIX support server. Their DLNA HDMI TV will also be connected. They will not be using an ICANN DNS feed.

The “ICANN Experiment” has run it’s course. Reruns are not interesting. The rest of the world will have to increase the pace to put ICANN in the history books for good.