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Re: [Ianaplan] [Iana-strategy] Ted Lemon's No Record on charter-ietf-ianaplan-00-04: (with COMMENT)

Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> Wed, 10 September 2014 20:33 UTC

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> -----Original Message-----
> > "Transition" is the word that NTIA uses itself to describe the
> > situation, and my guess is that part of the reason is because it need
> > not imply completely pulling out of having any role. I think that is
> > less true with "relinquish" or "give up."
> 
> The text with my proposed modification would be "relinquish its current
> role" which I think means the same thing as "transition out of its current
> role."   Transition might be a bit more weasely; I don't think we should
> encourage that wording, but if you think that for political reasons we can't
> say "relinquish" or "give up" I guess I'm not going to press the point.

It is a political requirement of the transition that the US government relinquish, give up, end its unilateral oversight role. 
It is also a requirement that no other government or intergovernmental organization take over that role. 
Relinquish is the right word.

Milton L Mueller
Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor 
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/

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