On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:17:11PM -0800, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote a message of 141 lines which said:
Similarly to the IETF, W3C, other SDOs, etc., presumably those folks would either be supported by their organizations or they believe sufficiently strongly in the efforts to fund themselves. [...] In other areas of the global multi-stakeholder community, e.g., the various ACs, SOs, and their constituencies, and within the IETF, IAB, W3C, ISOC chapters, etc., I would note that people often volunteer far more than 15% of their time for the benefit of the Internet as a whole
The comparison seems inappropriate to me. When developping standards, you have time (you know what happens of IETF milestones...), you are not connected to a production system, you do not implement the standard (or you are paid for that) so you can be sure that operations people will take care of the details. It is less damaging if you do it badly. Here, we are talking of something far more operational, with possible direct consequences to one of the crucial components of DNS security. Frankly, I feel that ICANN claims about its commitment to "security and stability" are hard to take seriously, after this statement of interest.