On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Matthew Shears <mshears@cdt.org> wrote:
Agree with Chuck that Allan's second point is key. It is not at the level of the IANA functions that policy issues will be resolved. If the policies are developed through agreed bottom-up transparent processes and are appropriately followed there should be very little need for oversight of the IANA functions. (I think we all agree that it is largely neutral and clerical - but important - function.) The "oversight" or accountability ensuring mechanisms must be with the policy making entities, in other words ICANN. We should be wary of overloading the IANA functions with "oversight" - if it is unnecessary it could be burdensome indeed detrimental to the performance of the function itself.
Matthew
Agree..