No deal. I don't assert that the ITU is a better forum: I assert that it *can* be a better forum. I don't predict the future (if I did, I would have never given ICANN the early support that I did...). I certainly don't claim that the ITU looks like a better forum: clearly, ICANN looks better until you see how far they veer from their stated bylaws and procedures. I also believe that the ITU might look pretty lousy now, but they might improve when the harsh spotlight of the DNS-following community gets ahold of them. Really, I'm not ITU fan. I simply assert that ICANN has consistently failed to fulfill its promise and has not shown any sign of getting better. In the search for an alternative to ICANN, we are left with (a) a replacement ICANNish body or (b) an established body. I am suspect of (a) because ICANN has been very effective at causing false hope, and a replacement body could do the same. In category (b), the ITU is about the only international body with much of an established constiuency. I would be happy to be wrong about that, given how lame the ITU is about getting anything useful done.