Re: [Ianaplan] [[e-mail]: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: [CCWG-ACCT] Ominous update on the IANA transition]

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Hi John,

On 5/3/15 11:47 PM, John Curran wrote:

> However, I’m not certain it is a fair expectation that in the midst of
> admittedly private 
> discussions between IETF/IAOC and ICANN, ICANN should have
> unilaterally and 
> publicly sent a letter of inquiry to NTIA (in fact, I can easily
> imagine circumstances 
> where that act would be deemed rather anti-social...)

While that is a fair point as far as it goes, the next step probably
should be ICANN consulting with us about going to NTIA with their
concerns, if they think NTIA is blocking.  I suppose these open
communications are leading to just that.  The contract, as I understand
it, doesn't prohibit ICANN from entering agreements *with* NTIA's
permission.

> The entire community has known for more than a decade that ICANN has been
> operating under two distinct agreements with respect to IANA registry
> operations, 
> and the current and very active IANA stewardship transition planning
> efforts are 
> all about finally straightening this mess out.   The IETF is quite
> reasonably trying 
> to make progress via its proposed supplemental agreement changes, whereas 
> ICANN has equally reasonable concerns that the planning for the IANA
> stewardship 
> transition is still underway and we haven’t yet provided the required
> IANA stewardship
> transition plan to NTIA, let alone received any indication back about
> proceeding to
> implementation.

I agree with this point, which leads me to believe that there are ways
to resolve the current issues.   They will all require a little better
communication between the two organizations than we've had as of late,
and the same eagerness to address our communities needs as we have seen
in the past.  No blame here, by the way.  Let's agree that ICANN is in a
bit of a tough spot and needs to tread carefully at this point in time.

>
> We’re going to have some interesting discussions in the coming months
> – discussions 
> which are necessary in the process of coming to alignment on various
> IANA edge issues 
> across the affected communities.   These will result in some
> entertaining reading from
> time to time, but I suspect that everyone can keep a modicum of
> patience and faith nearby 
> as necessary, with due consideration of long-term importance of the
> task before us to 
> the global Internet community.

Indeed.

Eliot