its not on the ICANN web site yet but the washington post reports that ICANN picked ex-Australian government official Paul Twomey to be its new CEO. the post story is not quite accurate ICANN's role as administrator of the domain-name system (DNS) puts it at the heart of many important decisions impacting users worldwide, with authority to decide which Internet domains (such as dot-com, dot-org and dot-net) exist, who can sell those addresses and how much it costs to buy them. (ICANN does not say how much domains cost) the post reports that the search committee is trying to work out a deal with Twomey but if they can not the falback is Sustralian Chris Disspain operator of .au. I do not have any idea what this means for the relationship between the IETF and ICANN over the IETF-IANA function. Maybe Geoff can comment on these two folk. Scott