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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&gt;
</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Oh – and I wouldn’t call it denationalisation of the IANA function.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I would </span>
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</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">call it multistakeholder management and authorisation of&nbsp; [former] IANA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&gt;
</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">functions within the ICANN structure.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Conceptually I have no objection to this re-labeling. Aesthetically, its two steps down the road to ugliness. ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">I mean, de-nationalization isn’t pretty but at least it’s compact. “multistakeholder management and authorization of…..” is a mouthful and hey, it doesn’t fit
 on my bumper sticker. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&gt;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I suggest “former” because it might be strategically useful to let the name IANA die</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&gt;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"> or change its name, in developing the new ICANN operational procedures to deal
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</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">with these functions.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Good idea!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">IANAdead</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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