[CWG-Stewardship] Question for Sidley

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> > I’m actually quite happy with looking to include much of the IANA
> functions operator accountability mechanisms under an enhanced ICANN
> accountability regime.  In my mind this has one crucial element in it – that
> the stakeholders are present in ICANN already and accountability is to them.
> Move it somewhere else and the stakeholders have another organisation to
> watch.

Martin,
This statement doesn't make any sense to me. 
IANA as an affiliate of ICANN doesn’t create a completely new organization to watch, it simply separates out the IANA governance issues from the policy governance issues. Your approach mixes them up. You have never adequately explained how you overcome the issues related to that - such as, for example, how IANA functions might become a hostage in policy disputes, or how the tiny status of IANA in the overall ICANN regime might make it difficult to focus on IANA performance.