Re: Who do you trust??
"If ICANN gets sued out of existence, it won't break the Internet. Somebody else will pick up their clerical work, and that's all that matters."
Actually, that's an interesting question. Suppose that, say, $RepressiveRegime were to sue ICANN over whatever they think they can make stick, demand a ludicrously large monetary settlement and win (Long-shots, perhaps, but not, I think, impossible.). Normally, if an entity can't pay a LLMS, the solution is to liquidate and/or turn over all assets to the winning party. Surely, in ICANN's case, the naming/numbering authority would have to be counted as an/their only asset and, thus, would be transferred to the victorious claimant.
COULD a $RepressiveRegime end up, essentially, owning the internet?