Re: [Internetgovtech] Cross community

[Suzanne Woolf <[e-mail]>]

On Jul 21, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Olivier,
> 
> On 7/21/14, 6:08 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>> Is there going to also be a study of accountability mechanisms for
>> each of the parties administering each parameter space?
> 
> Certainly the community should review our existing model to decide what
> needs to change.  But we should be mindful that we do have a functioning
> service, and some principles that were reviewed on this list and
> presented in London that do guide us.  I also think the proposed charter
> that Andrew put out makes pretty clear what needs to be reviewed.

Perhaps I can rephrase Eliot's point by referring back to the previous discussion of Andrew's proposed charter for the ianaplan activity.

It seems that the task at hand is limited to assessing and planning what needs to change if the NTIA contract with ICANN for the IANA functions goes away.

NTIA today has nothing to do with "accountability mechanisms for each of the parties administering each parameter space" under IETF policy management, and touches only a very small handful of general purpose parameter spaces associated with IETF protocols (DNS and IP).

Could you explain why "study[ing]…accountability mechanisms" of the rest of the "parties administering each protocol space" is important to move beyond the current ICANN-NTIA IANA functions contract? I guess I don't understand what organizations or processes you're proposing to "study," or to what purpose.


thanks,
Suzanne