[CWG-Stewardship] Do we really need a Contracting Co.?

[Greg Shatan]

Avri,

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

>
> On 01-Dec-14 20:25, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>
> Honestly at this point I think something is not clear here. Can you
> confirm if this PRT is within ICANN or not because your message above is
> implying outside. The second question is, what are the "IANA operation"
> related issues that ICANN board could say no to? and how is the
> accountability track fixing/addressing that.
>
>
> a few of us were talking about this evening over Eurodig drings and over
> dinner.
>
> I have come to believe the the MRT is really the ICANN Community as we
> know + others, but instead of sending its decisions to the Board for
> blessing it sends its decision to the Contract Co. for execution.
>

That is certainly the intent, in my mind. And I expect the details to be
consistent with that general statement, as they get filled in.

>
> It has been obvious for a while that the ICANN community and  ICANN
> Corporate are separate. So I have no trouble imagining that for the
> purposes of the MRT we organize what is essentially the stakeholders
> invovled in the ICANN community + some other parts of the Internet
> community into the MRT. Pretty much exactly just as we done with the ICG.
>
> As for who pays for the whole sructure we are talking about, it should be
> the IANA contractor, ICANN at this point, as part of its zero cost support
> of the IANA function.  The only thing that seems like it may require
> outside funding is the RFP/rebid process.  And for that we just follow the
> example we have been taught by ICANN Corporate and Contract Co. charges the
> applicants for the IANA contract an application fee sufficient for the
> process to be, as they say, cost neutral.
>

I think these are excellent suggestions.

>
> So it is not within ICANN, but it is formed by the ICANN Community with
> others.
>

That is how I hope for it to be.  But we'll need to make our way there, in
terms of details.

Greg

>
>
> avri
>


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