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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Martin and Greg<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think Martin is correct here and I hope people are not using this terminological debate as a proxy war for internal
 vs. external. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The principle of separability is well established and accepted, so as Martin suggests it makes no sense to describe
 the IANA functions operator in a way that identifies it with ICANN in our descriptions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"> cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org
 [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Martin Boyle<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The terminology, “IANA functions operator” has to cope with the concept that it is a small team in
 a big organisation (currently as a team in the Global Domains Division of ICANN) through to it being structurally separated to an entity as yet unknown but which might be entirely independent of any other body – say
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Trotters Independent Traders (New York, Paris, Peckham)</span></i>.&nbsp; Hence the choice of the word “entity.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">However, interpreting the IANA functions operator as ICANN does not make sense when read in 9.i:&nbsp; “To
 separate ICANN from the current operator (i.e. ICANN) if warranted and in line with agreed processes” does not make sense.&nbsp; “To separate the IANA Functions from the current operator (i.e. ICANN) if warranted and in line with agreed processes” does.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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