[CWG-Stewardship] Concern with Contract Co.

[Martin Boyle]

Hi Bertrand,

If contracts there are between IANA customers and the IANA functions operator, these should not need the Contract Co’s involvement (and I would find it hard to see why Contract Co would be involved at all at that level for what is a relationship between supplier (the operator) and the customer (the registry).

However, I’d note that (as Greg points out in a later post) there are a number of organisations (ccTLDs) that do not want or cannot sign such a contract and the current arrangements do not try to force this.  There is a bit of a history here!

Martin

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Sent: 27 November 2014 13:05
To: Avri Doria
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Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Concern with Contract Co.

Is the idea of a contract Co. a done deal? Establishing any organization with whatever limited staff is usually a recipe for its growth in time.

Is the option of having separate complementary contracts by the different users of the IANA functions off the table?

B.


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BERTRAND DE LA CHAPELLE

Internet & Jurisdiction Project | Director




On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org<mailto:avri at acm.org>> wrote:
Hi,

I think this has exactly a 180 degree wrong approach

• Contract Co. – This is a not for profit company whose only function is to be signatory to the contract with the IANA Functions Operator. As such this entity would have no staff.

I think that this should have nothing but staff, a minimal staff of one or two  I.e it should have a neutral Administrator that does what the PRT tells her to do in terms of the contract adminstration, and perhaps a backup/aise.  It could also be the Root Zone Management Process Administrator as that is a clerical staff function.

avri

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