[discuss] Thoughts welcome on proposed Netmundial submission

Mon Mar 3 22:55:19 UTC 2014

Hi,

Have you read the IGP proposal that came out today?

http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ICANNreformglobalizingIANAfinal.pdf

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Shatan, Gregory S. <GShatan at reedsmith.com>wrote:

> Roland makes a very important point -- ICANN may not always win the IANA
> contract.  Indeed, in 2012 there was a hiccup where the NTIA found ICANN
> unsuitable and (briefly) pulled the RFP.  So, perhaps the more likely
> scenario is the IANA function taking place without ICANN, rather than the
> IANA function taking place the US government.
>
> This leads to what I consider a higher-level issue lurking behind these
> IANA discussions.  As the party putting out the IANA contract, the NTIA
> must believe that the NTIA possesses the right and ability to perform the
> IANA functions (and by extension the US Government).  Therefore, unless the
> US cedes control of the IANA functions to a third party, or there is some
> sort of Internet coup, the IANA functions lie with the US government.  Now
> it might be possible that the US would be willing to cede control of the
> IANA functions under certain circumstances, but I have no idea what those
> circumstances would be.  Without the US's cooperation in transferring IANA
> functions (or some other plan to "take" the IANA functions from the USG),
> all of the stakeholder-side, "ICANN-side," user-side or even
> government-side [other than US] planning to transfer the IANA function
> seems like an exercise in futility.
>
> Greg Shatan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On
> Behalf Of Roland Perry
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 10:19 AM
> To: discuss at 1net.org
> Subject: Re: [discuss] Thoughts welcome on proposed Netmundial submission
>
> In message <B962D591-9434-4DF7-BF2A-1EC933662191 at chambers.gen.nz>, at
> 23:41:51 on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, Peter Dengate Thrush <
> barrister at chambers.gen.nz> writes
>
> >IANA functions do not have a separate entity - they are are a set of
> >functions performed already by ICANN.
> >That means they are already a function under the auspices of ICANN.
> >
> >THE issue in play is that ICANN performs these functions under a
> >contract from the USG
>
> But only because ICANN won the contract (each time so far). It should not
> be taken for granted that they always will.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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