[CWG-Stewardship] My concerns with the draft proposal and an alternative option

[Jordan Carter]

Dear all,

On 30 November 2014 at 06:45, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 29 Nov 2014 21:04, "Phil Corwin" <psc at vlaw-dc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alan-thank you for sharing your thoughtful concerns - and thanks as well
> to Olivier, Milton, and others who have responded to it with equal
> thoughtfulness.
> >
> >
> >
> > ·         As an attorney I am quite comfortable with the concept of a
> Contract Co. as the accountability mechanism, while recognizing that there
> are many details yet to be filled in, which is the problem when you are
> trying to build an airplane while flying it. But I recognize that the
> alternatives broached by Alan and others may be worthy of exploration, even
> if to be eventually dismissed, in the process of achieving broad consensus.
> >
> Interesting you already concluded other options will fall prey of being
> dismissed. Maybe it's just the way we have all been  systematically swayed
> into believing there is an extraordinary gold mining in what IANA does and
> the only way to secure it is by contracting.
> As I have said before, we will only be deceiving ourselves by saying a
> contracting route in the manner presented is the only way to ensure
> Accountability of the IANA operator... there are just 2 things required:
>
> - Maintain current separation of IANA department to allow for separability.
> - Ensure IANA record keeping is done by policy
>
> To achieve that without creating all the complicated entities et all. This
> community needs to recognise that IANA is set of bounded functions that
> does not need to be separated at the moment. It is at that point that a
> legal way to reflect those 2 features above can then be determined.
>
Seun, in my view you are missing the point that *today*, there is a
contract and that the contract could be given to someone else. The
provisions of that contract are what require the *current* separation of
the IANA department.

A solution that only does your two things above is *worse* than the status
quo in respect of accountability.

best,
Jordan

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