My take (speculation): Eschewing ICANN would likely not be freedom in any sense, any replacement would not be the work of open and trustless bodies, for any se

My take (speculation): Eschewing ICANN would likely not be freedom in any sense, any replacement would not be the work of open and trustless bodies, for any serious replacement would have to come from a swift coup by google, cloudflare and Amazon. I predict any replacement would likely be open in name only and instead tightly controlled by those three entities at least from the outset. It would be no more "open" than AMP is; even if protocols and specifications are open that's irrelevant if there's a de-facto central source. It is only by a quirk of history that ISPs not google handle most DNS and DoH "fixes" that. It would be easy for google to remove ICANN from the loop, it would be almost impossible for anyone else to do so without google's backing. That doesn't lend itself to an open and trustless replacement. The internet hasn't proven it's "willing or capable" to do anything not delivered via Chrome for a very long time now.