<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: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Milton,</div><div><br></div><div>Your example is built on a couple of false premises ; the first being - ICANN is only the IANA functions operator because of a contract with NTIA ; and the second is- the NTIA transition is to replace the IANA functions operator. </div><div><br></div><div>ICANN is the IANA functions operator today based on long-standing agreements with the IETF, the NRO as well as the USG. </div><div>In 1998 ICANN was created as a home for the IANA functions and there was no contract with the USG at that time.</div><div>In 2000, the IETF signed an MOU with ICANN to perform the technical work of the IANA. This agreement is recorded in RFC 2860.</div><div>In 2004, the NRO signed an agreement with ICANN to “require specific actions or outcomes on part of IANA.”</div><div><br></div><div>As for what NTIA announced in March 2014, it was not about replacing the IANA functions operator, it was to replace NTIA’s role administering changes to the root zone as well as acting as “the historic steward of the DNS”. In the words of the NTIA announcement, it asks for “a proposal to transition the current role played by NTIA in the coordination of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS)."</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-- Elise </div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 5:42 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Elise Gerich <<a href="mailto:elise.gerich@icann.org">elise.gerich@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:internal-cg@icann.org">internal-cg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:internal-cg@icann.org">internal-cg@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> RE: [Internal-cg] FW: Further RFP revision<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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operator.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This is only because NTIA currently awards the IANA contract to ICANN. The NTIA and its IANA contract are going away.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ergo, we have to treat the IANA as a separate thing that is not inherently bound to ICANN.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Milton L Mueller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Syracuse University School of Information Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/"><span style="color:blue">http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></body></html>