Public Comments on IANA proposal

[David Post]

Forgive what may be a very stupid question, but I remain confused 
about something.  Earlier in this thread, Seun Ojedeji wrote:


>In the current configuration, PTI is not in the position to issue 
>RFP, it's rather the parent (ICANN) that is in the position to issue 
>RFP based on the recommendation of IRF team/possible escalation from 
>CSC. The later which is not yet very clear. So PTI is basically 
>entering the current shoes of ICANN and ICANN will be entering the 
>shoes of NTIA post-transition.

Later, Milton wrote:

>While everyone recognizes the need to separate policy making from 
>implementation (and in fact such a requirement to keep IANA 
>employees out of the policy process was written into the NTIA 
>contract), a wholly independent IANA seems to scare people, because 
>they are afraid it might be captured by someone who wants to use it 
>to circumvent or block bottom up policy developed in ICANN.
>

These aren't consistent with one another, are they?  If  Seun's 
description is correct, PTI takes over for ICANN and ICANN takes over 
for NTIA; PTI decides [via its own processes] on root zone changes, 
and sends them to ICANN for approval. "Policy-making" for the root is 
PTI's job (the way that, currently, it's ICANN's job); ICANN's job is 
passing along the changes proposed by PTI for implementation in the root.

So I'm confused by Milton's reference to an independent IANA that 
"might be captured by someone who wants to use it to circumvent or 
block bottom up policy developed in ICANN."  ICANN's not the 
policy-maker in this scheme, so the concern that an independent IANA 
might block ICANN's bottom up policy doesn't make sense.  On the 
other hand, maybe it's not correct to characterize the situation as 
Seun did - perhaps the idea here is that ICANN will be the 
policy-maker for root changes ... I must be misunderstanding 
something, but I'm not sure what --

David



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