Re: [Ianaplan] A draft for your review

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On 02/09/14 15:08, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Miles,
> 
> On 9/2/14, 4:02 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, but the MOU can be withdrawn from.  Right now, the NTIA
>> contract "backstops" the MOU.  The question becomes: what, if
>> anything replaces that backstop?  If I were NTIA, I'd sure like
>> to see that answered before stepping away.
> 
> Yes, but what does that mean in this case?  If the IETF were to 
> terminate the arrangement, would ICANN still review our documents,
> and if so, would we not take them seriously?  The worst case would
> be ICANN's copy of protocol parameters didn't match our own, and at
> that point, developers would have to decide who to believe.  This
> would not be a good state to be in, but realistically anyone else
> can do the same thing.  And truly it would serve nobody's interest
> for this to happen, not ours, not ICANN's and certainly not
> implementers'.

Right. Speculation along those lines is just a distraction and
is not any rational form of planning, about worst or other cases.

S.

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> Eliot
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