Re: The bloody obvious
My inclination is to believe people like John Levine, who's an ISOC board member and has had a long public career in computing. I don't believe, given the available evidence, that Levine is corrupt or looking to profit off this deal.
I don't know anything about the other ISOC board members. I'm suspicious of Sullivan. I don't have the slightest faith the good intentions of Ethos or Chehade.
It's not necessary that the ISOC board members be corrupt to have voted for this deal. People fall for swindles all the time - even, indeed especially, highly educated people (because of Dunning-Kruger and other psychological traps).