My answers to the CWG-IANA questions

Stephanie Perrin stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA
Mon Feb 23 23:31:31 EET 2015


+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.
Thanks for all the work you folks!
Stephanie Perrin
On 2015-02-23 21:34, Olévié Kouami wrote:
> Hi !
> Great job Milton !
> +1
> Cheers !
> -Olevie-
>
>
> 2015-02-15 20:01 GMT+00:00 Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org 
> <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>>:
>
>     Hello Norbert,
>
>     Yes, I agree with you and Milton.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Robin
>
>
>     On Feb 10, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Norbert Klein wrote:
>
>>     Hi Milton and all on the NCSG-DISCUSS list,
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>
>>     Norbert Klein
>>     Cambodia
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 02/10/2015 03:15 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>>     Dear members:
>>>
>>>     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.
>>>
>>>     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
>>>
>>>     1.Do you believe that the transition from the NTIA should happen
>>>     (Please provide the reasons for your answer)?
>>>
>>>     Yes. Unilateral US government control of the IANA functions
>>>     contract is not compatible with the multistakeholder model
>>>
>>>     2.Are you comfortable with ICANN as policy-maker also being the
>>>     IANA operator without the benefit of external oversight?
>>>
>>>     No.
>>>
>>>     3.Should registries, as the primary customers of the IANA
>>>     functions, have more of a say as to which transition proposal is
>>>     acceptable?
>>>
>>>     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.
>>>
>>>     4.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)
>>>
>>>     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.
>>>
>>>     5.Do you believe the IANA function is adequately separated from
>>>     ICANN under the current arrangements (internal separation)?
>>>
>>>     No.
>>>
>>>     6.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?
>>>
>>>     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.
>>>
>>>     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?
>>>
>>>     Yes, very important.
>>>
>>>     o Would it be important to separate out the costs associated
>>>     with address and protocol functions?
>>>
>>>     Less so than the IANA department as a whole
>>>
>>>     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)?
>>>
>>>     No, a new operator could be contractually bound to accept
>>>     changes from ICANN that were the product of legitimate policy
>>>     making processes.
>>>
>>>     9.            Are there other transition models which the CWG
>>>     should be exploring?
>>>
>>>     Yes, the new structural separation model proposed by Brenden
>>>     Kuerbis, Matt Shears, and Avri Doria
>>>
>>>     Milton L Mueller
>>>
>>>     Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
>>>
>>>     Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>>>
>>>     http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>>>
>>>     Internet Governance Project
>>>
>>>     http://internetgovernance.org <http://internetgovernance.org/>
>>>
>>
>
>
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