<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This issue (who makes decisions about or approves "architectural changes to the root system" in the absence of the NTIA) bears further review. The CSC doesn't seem like the right place at all. The PTI Board makes some sense, but only if we are not keeping it minimalist. Could the NTIA role simply disappear (as we propose to happen with the authorization/validation function)?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:14 AM, David Conrad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.conrad@icann.org" target="_blank">david.conrad@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>Avri,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the clarification.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#b5c4df 5 solid;PADDING:0 0 0 5;MARGIN:0 0 0 5"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#330033">And I am not lumping them in with any policy decisions currently being made. In fact that is the crux of my question: where will these decisions be made? The PTI Board? If so we should make sure it is reflected in the list.</div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div></span><div>This is one of the things I've been a bit wound up about. I've called it "architectural changes to the root system".</div><div><br></div><div>Currently,my view is that that decision is made by NTIA, using processes known only to them (but which, from empirical evidence would appear to include consultation with technical experts at NIST and elsewhere). I had thought a logical place would be the CSC via the creation of an ad hoc, technically knowledgable committee, but I gather my assumptions of the role of the CSC were in error. Personally, I don't care too much who makes the decision, just that the decision is made by folks who understand the issues and the process by which the decision is made is open, transparent, accountable, and well documented (and makes sense, of course).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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