<div dir="ltr">Andrew, all:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2015 at 09:33, Andrew Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" target="_blank">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:08:19AM +1200, Jordan Carter wrote:<br>
> Is the ICANN board allowed to agree to a separation of the IANA functions<br>
> operator, given its fiduciary duties to the corporation?<br>
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</span>It'd be hard not to, given that it has had that agreement with the<br>
IETF for many years. If the answer is, "No," we're going to have a<br>
very rocky future ahead.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the face of it I don't think there is an issue with numbers and protocols. Those communities have agreements with ICANN and can I suppose appoint alternative operators regardless of what ICANN thinks. That is how the principle of separability is upheld in their proposals.</div><div><br></div><div>The question is still interesting as it might guide ICANN's response to a decision by such a community to move the operator - e.g. would it feel obliged to oppose such a change.</div><div><br>The complexity, as usual, arises with names :-( </div><div><br></div><div>I would be grateful for knowledge from CWG participants on the question, in respect of the names process, but also whether it was considered for the others.</div><div><br></div><div>I keep coming back to the status quo. At the moment, the USG can reassign the functions. We need to be careful that, given there is a principle of separability, it isn't rendered inoperable by the CWG's proposal through this matter.</div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Jordan</div><div> </div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br>+64-495-2118 (office) | +64-21-442-649 (mob)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Web: <a href="http://www.internetnz.nz" target="_blank">www.internetnz.nz</a> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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