"Benevolent dictatorship by Jon Postel would have gotten us there, but Jon was unwilling to stand up to pressure from the White House. Ira Magaziner threatened him ("You'll never work on the Internet again") and he didn't have the spine to tell Ira to take a flying leap."

WOW... Apparently ICANN drama is about 1000 times worse then you thought. If you run things, you can get rich, as long as you don't make people so angry that they overthrow you. Of course by the time these people ever succeed at making ICANN the organization it should have been ICANN won't matter anymore because we'll be paying more attention to how google associates words with things then how DNS works.