[CWG-Stewardship] Financing the new IANA

[Milton L Mueller]

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



1.             IANA must remain a single, integral service.

MM: What do you mean "remain"? The names, numbers and protocol parts are almost completely unrelated and are performed by different people.

Oversight and accountability (O&A) can be done once. There is no scope for achieving O&A on the basis of several distinct entities and procedures.

MM: Oversight and accountability should be tied to the entities who use IANA, and those are in fact different entities and involve different procedures. O&A might actually work better if it is divided. And what if one part of the functions is performed well and other other poorly? Unification makes accountability more difficult.

2.       All the IANA services must remain cost-free to the final user. There must be no question of charging for specific services, notably amendments of the Root Zone.
          ICANN already has more than ample resources to ensure that the present and future IANA is fully funded on a public service basis, as at present.

MM: TANSTAAFL. That's the acronym for "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch." Currently, registries and registrars are paying for IANA services via ICANN fees, and they collect their revenues via end user registrations. The issue is not whether the functions are "cost-free" but to whom the costs are allocated and how. Whether current arrangements are optimal or not is a matter for discussion and debate. If Mr. Wilkinson thinks the current arrangement is optimal he must make a logical and fact-based case for it, it is not useful to issue dogmatic pronouncements that tell us what "must" happen.

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