Originally Posted by GeorgeK

ICANN has a mission to be transparent, so making that list of 24 "secret supporters" is important if ICANN (and ICM) are to have any shred of credibility. You shouldn't be able to get a Top-Level-Domain with secret lists of supporters, while also forcing opponents to make their opposition be PUBLIC.

Imagine if both the list of supporters AND opponents were kept secret -- no one would have a clue whether ICANN's Board was operating appropriately. That's not good governance.