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<DIV>Thanks Mike. Yes, I agree, I do think a path forward is beginning to
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<DIV>Yes, two important points there and my wording could have been better as
regards consultancy. But equally there is a trust issue if the (proposed)
consultancy was US based which needs to be considered. Anyway that�s detail for
later, and I agree in any wording we could do without the �based outside the
USA�. And I agree the active involvement of US towards such a solution would be
good. And I note NTIA�s reaction to EU statement today as favourable in terms of
the direction we are proposing.</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, I was wondering about the Verisign issue. I don�t know how they would
react to the instruction to change coming from ICANN rather than Dept of
Commerce, but I can�t see why they would be upset by this once an agreement was
in place. But if they were not co-operative with the emerging multistakeholder
solution, there is no reason not to thank them for their past service and move
the A root elsewhere. I am imagining at this stage that most of the root
operators, if not all, will move with a global supported solution. </DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mmr@darwin.ptvy.ca.us
href="mailto:mmr@darwin.ptvy.ca.us">Mike Roberts</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 14, 2014 8:42 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@1net.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [discuss] Fwd: Possible approaches to solving "problem no.
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<DIV>PS I would also suggest that ICANN utilise an outside independent
consultancy based outside of the USA to conduct this study and consult all
stakeholders and prepare the directions paper, in the interests of expediency
and efficiency.</DIV>
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<DIV>It appears that there is beginning to emerge a way forward.</DIV>
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<DIV>However much many of us might dislike it, the fact is that the U.S.
Congress and senior govt ministries hold trump cards if a proposal emerges that
offends them. In the present atmosphere of worldwide terrorist attacks and
threats, they are easily offended.</DIV>
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<DIV>Although some might favor a proposal that dwells on the many deficiencies
of USG behavior toward ICANN and IANA, it would be much more productive to have
one that results in the active engagement of the U.S. in making it happen,
rather than being consigned to the large dustbin of schemes that attracted
political disfavor. The wording of Ian's PS above is the type of thing that
attracts "disfavor."</DIV>
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<DIV>One additional point to consider in constructing a new arrangement is that
Verisign operates the master root server, from which all the updates are
distributed to other servers, under a contractual cooperative agreement that is
entirely separate from USG links to ICANN. It would not accomplish much in
the way of global IG MS if we got the IANA changes, but the Department of
Commerce and Verisign continued, as they do today, to have a choke hold on
updates to the A server.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Mike</DIV>
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