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

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 09:45:51PM +0000, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> 
> Come on, Andrew. That model is no more complicated than either the hybrid (legal separation) or the internal. People keep overlooking the massive internal bylaw changes that have to occur to make the internal models acceptable and workable. 
> 

I can see an argument about quite how complicated the bylaw changes
would be.  I am not entirely convinced, but I can certainly see its
force.

By contrast, it seems to me that setting up an organization that is
tightly confined to IANA has _got_ to be much less work than setting
up an organization that is responsible for accountability over policy.
You can put lots of restrictions on what can get into the IANA
organization, and thereby restrict the kinds of policies that it is
allowed to implement to be just like the kinds of thing that are
already done routinely.  All of that is working fine anyway, as far as
anyone has been able to say, so just emulating the thing that's
working shouldn't be a tall order.

Building a new set of accountability controls over policy, on the
other hand, sounds like a messy job that could take ages (for some
value of "ages", where one such possible value is ∞).

Best regards,

A

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