[CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: ICANN Board Comments on Cross Community Working Group (CWG) Draft Transition Proposal for Naming Related Functions

[Christopher Wilkinson]

On 22 Dec 2014, at 21:40, "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes at verisign.com> wrote:

> The option of separating IANA from ICANN provided important accountability. 

Dear Chuck:

I think that you overstate the case. Granted, there was at least one occasion when NTIA delayed the renewal of the contract in order to obtain a better offer from ICANN. OK.
But observing this at the time, albeit from afar, there was never an even remote expectation of separation.

In such an eventuality, the whole 1997 international negotiation over the creation of ICANN would have been re-opened. That which, no doubt, none of the parities, including NTIA, would have wished.

Regards

Christopher