[CWG-Stewardship] Remember to send questions and comments to legal advice from Sidley Austin

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:58:30PM +0100, Paul M Kane - CWG wrote:
> > I would like to specifically ask Sidley to give formal advise on how
> > best to ensure an affiliate company (as part of ICANN Community) can
> > be the custodian for the Stewardship role currently undertaken by NTIA.
> 
> I thought in the Sidley documents, ICANN was taking the Stewardship role
> currently held by NTIA, and PTI does the IANA part, at least if there's an
> affiliate company.  Did I misunderstand?

You did not misunderstand the Sidley-Austin discussion draft. You are, I think, misunderstanding Paul Kane. Paul seems to be asking that the Affiliate be more like the Contract Co.