The IAB thanks ICANN and the Root Server Operators for the opportunity to comment on this draft governance model. The IAB believes that it would be able to perform those duties discussed in the model, which we understand to be: * Appointing two representatives to the Governance Working Group * Reviewing the work of the Governance Working Group. * Coordinating with the Root Server System Governance Board * Appointing a member of Root Server System Standing Committee. We do note two areas where the drafters may wish to consider providing more detail. The first is the work of the secretariat in facilitating liaisons. The text currently says, in part: * Coordinating and providing transparency to the operationalization of appropriate standards (e.g., RSSAC publications and IETF RFCs). * Assuming new coordination roles that could be defined in the future The IAB believes that a description of which coordination roles would be under the Secretariat would be useful, as the RGB and IAB will evidently also coordinate with each other directly. Similarly, clarification of whether the coordination envisioned for the deployment of standards will include contributions to the relevant IETF working groups would be useful. As a second point, the text on the work of the Root Server Operator Review Panel contains no direct references to the appeal path of any decisions it takes. The IAB understands the text to imply that the ICANN Board's approval is the first confirmation of RRP decisions and that further appeals take the form of reconsideration requests as set out in Article 4 of the ICANN Bylaws. If that is the case, explicit statements in this document may make the document more comprehensible to a broad audience. If it is not the case, the IAB would welcome other clarifications of this point. regards, Ted Hardie for the IAB