Re: [Ianaplan] who or what is the proper authority to control the IANA domain and the trademark?

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Roger Jørgensen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Milton L Mueller wrote:
> <snip>
>> Just to be clear - my suggestion is somewhat different.  The domain and mark
>> should be "owned" and registered by some organization OTHER than the entity
>> performing the IANA function, with operational use licensed and delegated to
>> the current contractor - either by one of the parties that will be in a
>> position to change that contractor, or in some joint trust.  That would
>> avoid any hiccups in the event of a change in contractor.
> This entire thing is talk about oversight of the IANA, IANA-transition.
>
> In that sense the name IANA, both trademark and the domain name
> IANA.org are suddenly something that matter. It is possible to move
> the registry, the function IANA has, away from IANA to something else,
> but lots of work. It does matter and it does not matter at the same
> time as I see it.
>
> In any event, we have a chance now to "place" the trademark (IANA) and
> domain (IANA.org) somewhere where it can not be easily be tempered
> with by anyone. Stability.
>
> Whoever, or whatever it is, should be actual legal different from
> whoever is doing the actual IANA function. This is not a critic of
> ICANN, think the history show ICANN has done a good job with the IANA
> registry, It is more about settings things while everyone are happy so
> it can NOT be a source for conflict in the future. A possible conflict
> how unlikely we think it is now that can possible hurt the stability
> of Internet, the stability of the IANA registry.

+1 - the clearest statement I've seen on this yet



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