Re: [Ianaplan] control and negotiation (was Re: draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-02 working group last call)

[manning bill <[e-mail]>]

thank you for your understanding of  a) my dyslexia and b) autocorrect 

i am  glad that the fundamental questions are answered and there is now time and interest to work on the minor details.
Have we started to grapple with the issues of IANA.ORG in alternate encodings/scripts yet?

/bill
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On 9November2014Sunday, at 18:41, Milton L Mueller <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> Removal of or rehoming some of the trappings of power (who controls
>> IANA.*) seems like a niche question at best.
>> 
>> For me, the more fundamental problem is:  a) how to tell when an operator
>> of one of these functions has lost it,  and  b) how to neutralize the impact of
>> a rouge operator.
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> :-) I assume you mean rogue. (Hope pointing out this typo doesn't make you red-faced.)
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> Well of course, the issue of when to abandon a particular operator is more fundamental, and the ability to switch is critical to the ability to neutralize a rogue operator. 
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> But I am perfectly content to let the IETF make that decision as they see fit at some point in the future. All we can do now is ensure that if or when they do have to make such a decision, the path will be as smooth as possible for them to make a switch. That is, by handling the domain and TM correctly, we can lower switching costs. 
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