Although highly unlikely and perhaps preventable by contractual terms,
the IETF Trust at some point in the future could stop ICANN and PTI from
using the IANA TM and the iana.org domain name. That is NOT equivalent to
stopping ICANN from being the Steward of the IANA Names Function (even if
we have to rename it the Mork&Mindy (*) Names Function). The name
does not make the function.
Alan
(*) Mork & Minday was the name of a Television program starting Robin
Williams, about 35 years ago - very good show. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%26_Mindy.
At 13/08/2015 06:46 PM, Greg Shatan wrote:
An entity external to ICANN,
taking over the IANA brand and identity, leaving ICANN as a mere
licensee, entering into a contract with ICANN where that external entity
exercises oversight and control over IANA services (including the ability
to find ICANN in default of that contract and ultimately the ability to
enter into a contract with someone other than ICANN for those
services).
We had a name for that entity in our first draft proposal. Contract
Co.
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