Re: [Ianaplan] Fwd: [CWG-Stewardship] ICG request concerning IANA trademark and iana.org domain name

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Sunday, June 21, 2015 14:08 -0300 John R Levine
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>...
>  I don't know anyone who thinks that changing the name of
> iana.org would be desirable.  But if things got nasty, I think
> it would be better to change the name than to engage in a long
> lawsuit with evil-son-of-ICANN to decide who gets to use it
> how, during which things would likely be frozen and we'd have
> to use another name anyway.

FWIW, I think that is key and always has been.  If things turn
very difficult, we will effectively have two choices:

(1) Pull out and make an implement a plan to quickly transition
the names, etc.

(2) Engage in either litigation or negotiation that, almost
certainly, would not go quickly.  While it was going on, we
would need to either suffer the "interesting operational
effects" (and huge risk) that Dave refers to or quickly
transition the names, etc., both to preserve current levels or
accessibility and as a hedge against losing or having worse
problems while things were being sorted out.

Independent of which of those choices one prefers, the
short-term requirement would almost certainly be the same.

   john