<div dir="ltr">I've been traveling and only now have had time to weigh in.<div>But send the draft out, yes. We should have our statement be part of the record. (And not be late!)</div><div><br></div><div>One suggestion for future drafts/statements:</div><div>Reading it carefully I am struck with the word "customers"</div><div><br></div><div><b id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class="" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px">Separability increases the</span> leverage of the </span><u>customers</u><span class="" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"> of IANA over performance,</span></i></span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class="" style="font-weight:normal">.....</span></i></span></b></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Should registries, as the primary <b><u>customers</u></b> of the IANA functions, have more of a say as to which transition proposal is acceptable?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:15px"><br></span></span></i></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></i></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Isn't the function an "assignment" not a purchase?</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Neither ICANN nor IANA should be known as a "market" with "customers" no matter what the monetary transactions are.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">DeeDee</span></font></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></i></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></i></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d830b1ba-c8c3-5fd3-efe9-b7edf091eda8"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i><span class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c3696f6-c8c4-c24c-d954-7978de4ea45c"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></i></span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Stephanie Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I agree...we have to get the documents in on time.  Milton sent this around at least two weeks ago now...in hindsight, we (the policy cttee) should have set a deadline and said all comments in by x, it goes out x plus two days.<br>
cheers SP<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 2015-02-26 9:50, Sam Lanfranco wrote:<br>
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Milton,<br>
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I would suggest that NCSG not only give some members "the pen" to work on documents, but assign "a gavel" to one member who can first warn of deadlines, and then pound the gavel and say "document closed and sent".<br>
Many of the nuances that are important don't really get carved in stone when documents are tabled and get struggled with in the ongoing processes. It is better to submit a more-or-less consensus document with a few warts to be struggled over later, than to submit no document at all.<br>
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Sam L.<br>
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On 26/02/2015 9:32 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:<br>
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Well, the CWG meeting discussing the surveys was this morning. Early.<br>
I wasn't able to attend, so maybe someone else can tell us whether we missed the boat.<br>
Probably so. This is very frustrating.<br>
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