Re: [Internetgovtech] Transition to the web

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:56:38PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> It would still be inappropriate for it to require adherence to
> ICANN policies --notably preservation of ICANN assets and giving
> priority to ICANN's best interests-- by the users or in
> discussions on that site.

Well, perhaps, but I'm not sure this list is the right place to have
an opinion about that.  I recognize the difficulty, however, of
attempting to express that to ICANN given that the terms of service of
the site presumably to be used for such communication might be
unacceptable.  But I'm not sure this list is the right place to try to
tell ICANN how it ought to run its process for figuring out the
names-relevant transition of the IANA function.

There _is_ an interesting wrinkle directly related to the IETF (and
perhaps indirectly to the IAB), however.  That is, the IETF maintains
an independent registry of special-use names.  These also need to be
registered with IANA, but maybe not in the DNS.  Clearly, that list
and the root zone mustn't be in conflict.  It's hard to see how to
make this point to ICANN if one is uncomfortable with the terms under
which ICANN is operating its community process.

Best regards,

A

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