Re: [Ianaplan] A draft for your review

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Stephen Farrell wrote:
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> On 02/09/14 15:08, Eliot Lear wrote:
>> Miles,
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>> On 9/2/14, 4:02 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>> Yes, but the MOU can be withdrawn from.  Right now, the NTIA
>>> contract "backstops" the MOU.  The question becomes: what, if
>>> anything replaces that backstop?  If I were NTIA, I'd sure like
>>> to see that answered before stepping away.
>> Yes, but what does that mean in this case?  If the IETF were to
>> terminate the arrangement, would ICANN still review our documents,
>> and if so, would we not take them seriously?  The worst case would
>> be ICANN's copy of protocol parameters didn't match our own, and at
>> that point, developers would have to decide who to believe.  This
>> would not be a good state to be in, but realistically anyone else
>> can do the same thing.  And truly it would serve nobody's interest
>> for this to happen, not ours, not ICANN's and certainly not
>> implementers'.
> Right. Speculation along those lines is just a distraction and
> is not any rational form of planning, about worst or other cases.
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The IANA transition is a question of contracts, organizational by-laws, 
law, and regulation - not engineering and project management.  Who, does 
what, to whom, under what circumstances; who pays; what are the 
mechanisms for accountability and recourse; and so forth, are precisely 
the kind of things that we need to be thinking about. (IMHO)

Miles Fidelman