David McGuire has an overview of next week's WSIS in today's Washington Post. This paragraph was especially interesting:

"That sentiment [that ICANN is unresponsive to the needs of governments] is very much out there . . . and although [ICANN] has evolved and has tried to bring in a lot of engagement from a lot of places, there have to be ways to open up the process even a little bit more," said Sarbuland Khan, head of the United Nations' Information and Communications Technology Task Force.

The reason that quote is amazing is because ICANN's Government Advisory Committee, composed of the very government beaurocrats now complaining that they don't have enough power, is the most secretive of the ICANN committees. Its deliberations at the quarterly meetings are closed to the public. Its mailing list is closed to the public. How can anyone but the members of this secretive group even evaluate their complaint?