[CWG-Stewardship] [DTA - SLE] SLE Document with clarifying background info.

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> people who tell us that separability is … a risky thing … 

Well, as you may have gathered already, I am among those.

I fear the lack of accountability of your PTI/CSC/PRF apparatus far more than I fear the lack of accountability of ICANN; reformed as it must be.

But I also fear that your concept of accountability to 'customers' is too narrow and commercially motivated.
The principal issue is global multistakeholder accountability and accountability to the public interest and to Internet users.

Also, the discussion about "Triggers for the Separation Review" is not relevant. And begs the question of DNS stability.
In the unlikely event of risks of technical failure of IANA, then other powers would undoubtedly intervene long before PTI could organise and resolve RFPs etc. for a new transition. Please get real.

Regards

CW

On 10 May 2015, at 14:28, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

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>> This is basically an argument that we have to do everything at the time of
>> transition because after that it'll be impossible to get changes.  If that's true,
>> then the accountability changes will have been inadequate. If that's what we
>> think will happen, we should resist the transition _at all_.
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> Non sequitur. The transition creates the opportunity for improvements. But as soon as it's over the willingness of all parties to change recedes. 
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> FWIW, I've been saying it's impossible and a bad idea to try to do "everything" since March 5, 2014 - 10 days before the NTIA even announced their support for a transition. I've always believed that the accountability of ICANN's board and policy making process is distinct from the IANA stewardship transition. There is a tendency on the CCWG side to load too many reforms into the immediate transition - and this tendency is greatly worsened by people who tell us that separability is a bad thing or a risky thing and that an external contracting authority is not necessary because we can....rely on ICANN's accountability reforms. So if you are one of those people, (and sometimes you sound like one) you have no one but yourself to blame for the "do everything at the time of transition" tendency, because it implies that both IANA and the policy process can rest entirely on ICANN's internal accountability mechanisms.
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