Re: [Ianaplan] A draft for your review

Ditto.

The whole point of accountability mechanisms, be they in law or contract 
form, is to address worst case situations.  When things are working, 
there's little need for such mechanisms.

Miles Fidelman

Richard Hill wrote:
> I believe in planning to prevent worst-case outcomes.
>
> But maybe my reality is different from yours.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ianaplan [mailto:ianaplan-bounces@ietf.org]On Behalf Of Stephen
>> Farrell
>> Sent: mardi, 2. septembre 2014 10:11
>> To: rhill@hill-a.ch; Brian E Carpenter
>> Cc: ianaplan@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [Ianaplan] A draft for your review
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/09/14 08:59, Richard Hill wrote:
>>> If they are not changed, then, in my view, ICANN will have no choice
>>> but to consider that it has ultimate authority over the global
>>> Internet's systems of unique identifiers, which of course includes
>>> the protocol parameters.
>> I can't think of a universe in which is that a helpful statement.
>>
>> The "will have no choice but to consider" phrasing seems very
>> like trolling.
>>
>> And the supposed problematic outcome isn't worth bothering with
>> anyway. As has been stated numerous times, if ICANN every acted
>> silly with the protocol parameters, they'd end up out of that
>> business in 6 months and would probably suffer other collateral
>> damage as a result. So they just won't mess about is my conclusion
>> regardless of this transition. (And I don't believe there's any
>> indication they'd want to mess about with the protocol parameters
>> anyway - they do a fine job with good folks.)
>>
>> Richard - wouldn't it be better to stick to a more reality
>> based discussion?
>>
>> S.
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