I have to disagree.

Strawman Proposal 1

4 Status of IANA Functions Operator

a Division of ICANN. The IANA Functions Operator will remain a division of ICANN.

b Enhanced Separability. ICANN will maintain the current separation between ICANN and IANA, and will make the IANA Functions Operator more easily separable from ICANN, if separation becomes necessary at some future time.

There was a "Review Committee" but clearly no other entity holding the contract. Strawman 1 did, nonsensically, posit that the internal committee could initiate an RFP. for a "new" operator, but this too confirmed the the "old" operator was ICANN.

The references to an oversight "mechanism" also alluded to something other than an external contract-holding entity.

Alan

At 30/11/2014 01:50 PM, Greg Shatan wrote:

Frankly, I don't think an "internal to ICANN" proposal was ever put on the table within the group prior to Frankfurt in any kind of tangible, concrete fashion.