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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Great message, Ian. I cannot tell you how strongly I agree with this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I must admit I was hoping for more than an interesting discussion here.
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I think we have been talking about this for well over a decade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I think we would achieve broad consensus here for Option 3 –
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">George, sorry if I misinterpreted your message! It is because I apparently gave your aging memory too much credit ;-) and interpreted the distortion of the
options as deliberate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">George raised an important question.
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<p class="MsoNormal">>However, under your #3 option, will the GAC have any say whatsoever
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<p class="MsoNormal">>in any IANA (or son of IANA, or new-name) decisions regarding the root
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<p class="MsoNormal">>zone file, and if so, under what terms? The devil is in such details. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I think the answer to it is quite obvious and we ought to be able to reach agreement on it quickly. The answer is: of course not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Policy development regarding what top level domain names are acceptable, what they are, how many there
should be, abuses regardng how they are run, etc. should take place <b>within ICANN's bottom up process</b>. Final auditing of RZF changes should not be conceived as a way for states – or anyone else – to alter, supersede or short-circuit policy decisions
made via a legitimate bottom up process regarding the domain name system. The IANA function should be clerical. Nor should it ever be used as leverage for non-DNS related foreign or economic policy objectives.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">By the way, that basic principle will form the basis of a position paper that IGP will release for the Brazil meeting.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So the role of governments – or of GAC, assuming that we retain it (which is by no means obvious imho) – is simply to do what they are already doing, which
is to provide a channel for states to participate in and/or “advise” the bottom up process. Again, I think this is obvious and am somewhat surprised that we are still discussing it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Back to Ian:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">If we could get to Brazil with a clear forward direction, I believe there
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">is a strong chance that Brazil could actually have a useful outcome –
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">acceptance of a direction for solution of the IANA oversight issue.
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">That would be a good achievement.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Moreover, I would add that several years ago at an IGF consultation, a representative of the Brazilian government said, in reference to what we now call the “globalization of
IANA,” that an option that was consistently non-governmental was acceptable, and an option that was consistently multilateral was acceptable. It was the inconsistent “One government uber alles” position of the status quo that he found unacceptable. So I think
we can make progress here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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