<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Kurt,</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>My thought is that the mechanism for considering changes to IANA services and operations is the equivalent of the NTIA authorization function. </div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>I'd argue that the root zone change authorization function is fundamentally quite different in the sense that while (in theory) it is possible for the Root Zone Administrator to determine whether a change request conforms to pre-defined policy, I'm not sure it is possible for the Root Zone Administrator to determine whether a proposed change to the architecture of the Internet is sufficiently well thought to not impact the security/stability of the Internet and/or whether the need for the change outweighs the risk of the change.</div><div><br></div><div>In practice, my understanding is that while NTIA did perform the authorization of change requests directly themselves (as documented in the slides they provided), they "outsourced" (typically to NIST) the development of criteria for accepting architectural changes and required the IANA Function Operator and Root Zone Maintainer to justify how whatever the change was being proposed met those criteria.</div><div><br></div><div>My proposed wording was not to suggest that the CSC had the ability to define the necessary criteria and then determine whether the criteria were met, rather it was to suggest the CSC was authorized to spin up an appropriate and competent body to do that (it happens infrequently enough that I don't think it makes sense to have a permanent body).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div></body></html>