[CWG-Stewardship] Composition of MRT

[Alan Greenberg]

At 17/12/2014 12:21 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>Alan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > I look forward to the seeing how that can be assured in a potentially
> > disruptive switch of the IANA operator where it may be that there is no
> > continuity of either staff or systems.
>
>I'd ask you to read those sections of the IANA contract which 
>require the contractor to cooperate with any successor and to ensure 
>a smooth transition, namely C.7.3 and I.61 of the current IANA 
>functions contract between ICANN and the NTIA.
>
>In effect, we have been living with your "potentially disruptive" 
>situation for more than a decade.

Indeed we have. And perhaps that is a small part of why there has 
been no change.


>I would like to hear more about how individual internet users are 
>helped by a situation in which there is no recourse if the current 
>IANA contractor either becomes incompetent or uses its control of 
>the IaNA functions to circumvent bottom up policy making.

They would not be. And I would never advocate such a situation. We 
just differ on how to resolve it.

Alan