[CWG-Stewardship] [IANA-issues] Fwd: Names Community vs the other two communities

[Milton L Mueller]

From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Greg Shatan



1.     Make IANA a Subsidiary of ICANN.  In order to promote structural separation, and to allow for future separation of the IANA group from ICANN should that become appropriate, IANA could become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICANN (rather than a department).  This would allow other entities to contract directly with IANA, rather than contracting with ICANN for IANA services.This would also make future separation easier (and should make the threat of separation as an accountability mechanism more realistic).

MM: Based on my initial, rather quick evaluation of this idea, I think it is a good idea for the short term; in fact, those who argue for a new, independent contracting authority might be well-served if IANA were a separate subsidiary of ICANN. This would, as Greg suggests, make it easier to contract separately with ICANN’s IANA and facilitate the kind of separability that might be required in the future.

However, this would be the easy part. The hard part is: who awards the contract?
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