Re: [Ianaplan] CWG draft and its impact on the IETF

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 23/05/15 07:10, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Stephen,
> 
> You asked this question:
> 
> On 5/21/15 3:51 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>> So I'd be interested in hearing from other folks [...] who think
>> that the IETF ought do something directly involving the PTI (e.g.
>> to re-open the MoU to change the partner involved or something.)
> 
> To me I think there are aspects of moving to the PTI model which are 
> quite attractive over time, because depending on how it is
> implemented, the PTI can provide for better separation from the
> naming community and associated politics.
> 
> But there are many many risks involved with adopting that approach
> in haste.  Maybe there will be opportunities over time to take
> advantage of the benefits, once we have some understanding as to how
> to manage the drawbacks that have been discussed on this list (there
> may be more).  My point is that we should not forever shut the door
> on the approach.
> 
> It's not clear to me that this involves reopening the MoU.  Most of
> the hard lifting has to be done at ICANN and how they are organized,
> and how funding works.  Some of that probably should be considered by
> them now, because it may be harder to fix later, but as we have
> something that works reasonably well now, and some of those issues
> are quite knotty, and there is only so much time in the day, if the
> transition is to happen, ICANN may need to address other more
> pressing concerns.

That sounds reasonable to me. If a PTI thing works out well
I could see us after some time has elapsed maybe wanting our
SLA or maybe even MoU to evolve to take account of all of
that. I don't see us doing that now though.

So maybe our overall reaction to the CWG thing ought be
something like "Hi CWG, go for the PTI thing as you like, all
we ask is that you bear in mind that we might or might not
want to join in with that later in some yet-to-be-determined
shape or form after it's been seen to be working out well."

S.

> 
> Eliot
> 
> 
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