[CWG-Stewardship] 30 Oct Meeting Action Item - RFP3 Summary of Options/Proposals

[Berry Cobb]

Lise, CWG-Stewardship Co-Chair and CWG Team,

 

As requested during the last meeting, staff has reviewed the CWG-Stewardship
email threads in view of summarizing for RFP3 "Options or Proposals" that
have been discussed by members and participants.  In doing so, we noticed
the documentation that has been started by Guru Acharya and found that there
was no additional value in creating new documentation at this stage. Guru's
document includes a brief summary of the five options discussed to date, a
table that compares the options by category, and it also highlights the
comments from the mail list by members and participants for each of the
options (see
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B46mlsyZUFF4bZfeWgGCdqIQHCP2BMOy4KZU4Ri
RiE8/edit>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B46mlsyZUFF4bZfeWgGCdqIQHCP2BMOy4KZU4RiR
iE8/edit).  

 

However, we did observe that this documentation does not distinguish between
the two sub-tracks discussed at the last CWG meeting as derived from SAC068.
It was suggested at the call last week:

SAC068's description of the NTIA Responsibilities in its Executive Summary
seems to capture this quite well:

.         The NTIA performs the role of IANA Functions Contract
Administrator for all the requirements contained within the Contract. 

.         As the Root Zone Management Process Administrator, NTIA's role can
be described as the "Final Authorization Authority" for changes to the Root
Zone content and contact information for the Top Level Delegations. This is
the most significant technical and policy activity currently performed by
NTIA that is related to IANA activities. 

Essentially SSAC has broken this down into:

.         The Contract Administrator which has responsibilities for creating
an RFP, managing the RFP process, allocating the contract and monitoring the
execution and enforcement of that contract; and

.         The Root Zone Management Administrator which is quite succinctly
described as the "Final Authorization Authority" for changes to the Root
Zone content and contact information for the Top Level Delegations

As such, it was proposed to further break down the deliberations in CWG-RFP3
into:

.         Replacement of NTIA's role as IANA Functions Contract
Administrator 

.         Replacement of NTIA's role as  Root Zone Management Process
Administrator

 

We're hopeful that the summary provided by Guru will serve the purpose of a
starting point for the RFP3 Sub-Team as well as the greater CWG, but if you
are of the view that there is something additional that should be provided
by staff at this stage to fulfil our action item, please let us know.  Of
course, if members or participants have any additional suggestions to
further advance this documentation, please let staff know how we may be of
assistance. 

 

Lastly, in preparation of RFP3's efforts, Greg Shatan as RFP3 Coordinator,
sent an introductory email to the sub-group to inform their deliberations (
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-rfp3/2014-November/000019.html>
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-rfp3/2014-November/000019.html).  It
includes three attachments for the Sub-Team to review that also provides a
proposed framework for evaluating proposals.  

 

Regards,

 

Berry A. Cobb

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers

720.839.5735

mail at berrycobb.com

@berrycobb

 

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