On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Avri Doria wrote:
Adding that the Protocol operational community has, and wishes to maintain, a contract that says they could split IANA with 6 months notice means that all solutions for the IANA Stewardship Transition will be subject to splitting as the solution to Protocols and Numbers issues. I beleive we need solutions that help make that less likely to happen.
This is a key point, I think: the MoU between ICANN and the IETF says that either party can terminate with 6 months' notice. This entails that it has always been possible for the IANA functions to split. But the IETF has been quite clear that it has no interest in such a split and would prefer things remain together. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com