Re: [Internetgovtech] Transition to the web

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:55:05PM +0000, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
> There's a lot of content, including a discussion forum, over on https://www.icann.org/stewardship

Yes, and it's all ridiculous.  That site (or "microsite", as it's been
styled) both attempts to impose ICANN policies on the global
discussion about all IANA and pretends to be a single discussion point
for the entire transition.  But as we heard in London at the ICANN
meeting's session on the IANA transition, the way this should really
be pursued is by working on the separate parts of the IANA function
inside the concerned communities.

So, we don't actually need a single site, or list, or anything to
discuss the overall IANA transition.  The co-ordination group is there
to solve that problem.  But if we did need such a site, it could not
possibly come under ICANN's terms of service, which include a rule
that one has to protect ICANN's assets.

Were this not an IETF list (so we don't really have a reason to
discuss the names-IANA issue), I'd suggest that ICANN should repurpose
its microsite to facilitate the discussion in the names community.

Best regards,

A


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