Ominous update on the IANA transition

[David Post]

At 12:23 AM 5/5/2015, Avri Doria wrote:
>Hi,
>
>But in all seriousness, it they did try 
>that.  the Iana Function Review could be 
>brought together and could (according to process 
>tbd) decide to move Names support to another 
>IANA Function operator.  and depending on 
>whether they hold out for the contract they 
>want, so could Numbers and Protocols.
>
>So any such sale would be impossible without the 
>buy-in of the larger community.
>
>I think that is sort of what the stress test 
>team might say.  but as a member of the CCWG 
>stress team I can certainly bring the test up in the team..  Next email ...

But the question is whether PTI's parent, ICANN, 
would pemit it to do that.  I doubt it, in any 
scenario I can imagine.  So they're stuck.
DGP





>avri
>
>On 04-May-15 23:32, Carlos Raúl G. wrote:
>>Stress test #xxxx
>>
>>Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>>+506 8837 7176 (New Number)
>>Enviado desde mi iPhone
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>>El may 4, 2015, a las 21:30, Avri Doria 
>><<mailto:avri at ACM.ORG>avri at ACM.ORG> escribió:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Only if ICANN decided to sell it to them.
>>>How likely is that?
>>>
>>>avri
>>>
>>>On 04-May-15 23:06, Joly MacFie wrote:
>>>>On the At-Large Stewardship call last week 
>>>>Christopher Wilkinson asked pointed questions 
>>>>about separability opening the possibility of 
>>>>a future PTI capture by billion dollar 
>>>>corporation(s), thereby ultimately escaping 
>>>>multistakeholder oversight i.e. ICANN. Could this be a root concern?
>>>>
>>>>j
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