<div dir="ltr"><div>We pulled this together, hope this helps:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF657f48o3n-zosS8PNyMAesgol-NdPH2Bg85WkpaNQ/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF657f48o3n-zosS8PNyMAesgol-NdPH2Bg85WkpaNQ/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-1ef84a2b-5b2a-97e4-1115-df7e6680d6a6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A legally distinct IANA affiliate, consisting of ICANN&#39;s current IANA department operations, with one or more members including ICANN, the RIRs (their preferred legal entity), and IETF (their preferred legal entity), and governed by a community selected board:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">maintains operational security, stability, resiliency of the DNS and other IANA functions;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">clearly separates the implementation of the IANA functions</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> from names (ICANN), numbers (RIRs) and protocols (IETF) policy making;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">creates IANA operational oversight, with service level agreements continuing or being developed in conjunction with and monitored by a direct customer committee(s) and comparable bodies within the policy organizations;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">creates IANA organizational accountability, with its board 1) being directly selected through multistakeholder community selection mechanisms within the policy making organizations, and 2) decisions subject to an independent appeals mechanism;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">addresses IANA legal and financial risk, by limiting the scope of IANA’s operations and activities;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">addresses geopolitical concerns potentially through the geographic diversity of IANA’s members;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">reduces Internet governance and business risk, by maintaining the coherency of the IANA functions while, should it be necessary, allowing for the portability of IETF, RIR, and ICANN registries;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">creates consistency between and strengthens the proposed contractual transition approaches of the IETF, RIRs, and ICANN;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">adheres to and satisfies the NTIA’s four principles</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, and achieves the USG’s stated &quot;intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community&quot;.</span></p></li></ul></span></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">---------------------------------------<br>Brenden Kuerbis<br>Post Doctoral Researcher, iSchool, Syracuse University || <a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank">http://internetgovernance.org</a><div><a href="http://internetgovernance.org" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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