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    +1 looks good to me too, although I could quibble about the answer
    to #4....that is not what it should mean, but you are in a much
    better position to determine what it means in the context of these
    discussions.<br>
    Thanks for all the work you folks!<br>
    Stephanie Perrin<br>
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            <div>Hi !<br>
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            Great job Milton !<br>
            +1<br>
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          Cheers !<br>
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        -Olevie-<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-15 20:01 GMT+00:00 Robin Gross
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              <div>Yes, I agree with you and Milton.</div>
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              <div>Thanks,</div>
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                      <div>On Feb 10, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Norbert Klein
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                        <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Milton
                          and all on the NCSG-DISCUSS list,<br>
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                          I agree with the text from Milton, including
                          the wording as it is. I am open for clarifying
                          re-wordings, but not with softening the
                          statements.<br>
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                          Norbert Klein<br>
                          Cambodia<br>
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                          <div>On 02/10/2015 03:15 PM, Milton L Mueller
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                              <p class="MsoNormal">Dear members:</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">The CWG on IANA
                                transition is going to collecting
                                community feedback on the IANA
                                transition this week. This exercise is
                                very important because it will influence
                                the CWG’s development of a proposal.</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">I have gone through
                                the 9 questions they prepared and
                                answered them, you all may be interested
                                in my answers. Most of these answers
                                will probably be uncontroversial on this
                                list, but there may be some room for
                                debate so  I would like to get your
                                feedback on my proposed answers</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>Do
                                you believe that the transition from the
                                NTIA should happen (Please provide the
                                reasons for your answer)? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Yes. Unilateral US
                                government control of the IANA functions
                                contract is not compatible with the
                                multistakeholder model</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>Are
                                you comfortable with ICANN as
                                policy-maker also being the IANA
                                operator without the benefit of external
                                oversight? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">No. </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>Should
                                registries, as the primary customers of
                                the IANA functions, have more of a say
                                as to which transition proposal is
                                acceptable? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">The NTIA has made it
                                clear that all major stakeholder groups,
                                including registries, need to accept the
                                transition proposal. Registries should
                                have an influential role in any
                                oversight mechanisms of the
                                naming-related IANA functions, but need
                                not have a privileged role in the
                                selection of proposals. </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>What
                                does functional separation of IANA from
                                ICANN mean to you? (this is not
                                referring to having another operator
                                than ICANN performing the IANA functions
                                but rather the internal separation
                                between ICANN and IANA in the context
                                where ICANN is the IANA operator) </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Functional separation
                                means that IANA is a department of ICANN
                                under the same management as the rest of
                                ICANN and without a clearly separated
                                budget or mission. </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>Do
                                you believe the IANA function is
                                adequately separated from ICANN under
                                the current arrangements (internal
                                separation)? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">No. </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt
                                    "Times New Roman"">      </span></span>In
                                considering the key factors (such as
                                security and stability, ease of
                                separating the IANA function from ICANN,
                                quality of services, accountability
                                mechanisms etc.) for evaluating the
                                various transition proposals what
                                importance would you give to the ability
                                to separate IANA from ICANN
                                (separability) vs. the other factors? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Very high importance,
                                because separability will have major
                                beneficial effects on all the other
                                factors, such as accountability, quality
                                of service, security and stability.
                                Separability increases the leverage of
                                the customers of IANA over performance,
                                security and stability.</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">7.            Given
                                the IANA functions could be separated
                                from ICANN do you believe it would be
                                important for the community to obtain
                                from ICANN on an annual basis the costs
                                for operating IANA including overhead
                                costs?</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Yes, very important.</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">o Would it be
                                important to separate out the costs
                                associated with address and protocol
                                functions? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Less so than the IANA
                                department as a whole</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">8.            Could
                                there be unforeseen impacts relative to
                                selecting a new operator for the IANA
                                functions vs the ICANN policy role
                                (should ICANN determine that there will
                                be another round of new gTLDs, how could
                                it ensure that the new operator would
                                accept this)?</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">No, a new operator
                                could be contractually bound to accept
                                changes from ICANN that were the product
                                of legitimate policy making processes. </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">9.            Are
                                there other transition models which the
                                CWG should be exploring? </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Yes, the new
                                structural separation model proposed by
                                Brenden Kuerbis, Matt Shears, and Avri
                                Doria</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Milton L Mueller</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Laura J. and L.
                                Douglas Meredith Professor</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Syracuse University
                                School of Information Studies</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"><a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/"
                                  target="_blank">http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/</a></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal">Internet Governance
                                Project</p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"><a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://internetgovernance.org/"
                                  target="_blank">http://internetgovernance.org</a></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                <div>Olévié Ayaovi Agbenyo KOUAMI</div>
                <div>Responsable du Projet CERGI Education<br>
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                <div>Directeur-Adjoint de KT Technologies Informatiques
                  sarl</div>
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                  professionnels des TIC (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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