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

[Paul M Kane - CWG]

Yes Greg.

We are designing a process for transitioning the Stewardship of IANA from NTIA -
therefore we need to consider the Stewardship role. To suggest this is not to be
considered now is absurd.

I agree the external contract co does not work (based on Sidley's advise given
in Istanbul), but we need to have proper legal advise as how best to have a
(limited and defined scope) affiliated company, within the ICANN Community,
responsible for Stewardship.

Best

Paul
PS Sorry for the delay in replying - I am traveling and my day job is getting in
the way of rapid replies.



Quoting Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com>:

> the affiliate would be the "Post-Transition Oversight/Accountability
> Mechanism" ("PTOAM"?).  Presumably, this would keep the IANA Functions
> operations inside of ICANN as a (functionally separated) unit.  The PTOAM
> would then be much like Contract Co. (although [possibly] "affiliated" with
> ICANN rather than completely independent).
> 
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > -----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.
> >
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