>> Also, these famous guys selected as part of the TCR group where the >> number is not actually seven, don't even have enough material to sign >> anything by themselves. > > Of course not. The only real requirement is that the TCR group hold enough > shares so ICANN can't sign anything without them. For instance, make 12 > shares, give 6 to ICANN and 1 to each of six TCR people, and then require 11 > shares in order to sign something. The only way anything happens is for ICANN > and at least 5 TCR to cooperate - which is about the only way to make it > palatable for all concerned.
Have you noticed that the Provisional TCR Proposal doc from ICANN has the page numbers encrypted ? (http://www.root-dnssec.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ICANN-TCR-Proposal-20100408.pdf) Looks it is the strange "I don't know how to number pages on pdf files" algorithm :-) Cheers Jorge