[Angostura]

> The point of the inquiry isn't to find out any new facts or correct any problems - it's to stall until this goes out of the public eye

Not always. It's quite often a way of giving the organisation a formal out, a way of admitting 'we dun goofed'.

[throwaway2048]

Considering the (ex-)leadership of ICANN is behind both approving the sale and ethos capital, and effectively answer to nobody, I doubt they have much interest in genuine reform.

[tripzilch]

Without reform, that's literally the same thing.