Yes Greg. We are designing a process for transitioning the Stewardship of IANA from NTIA - therefore we need to consider the Stewardship role. To suggest this is not to be considered now is absurd. I agree the external contract co does not work (based on Sidley's advise given in Istanbul), but we need to have proper legal advise as how best to have a (limited and defined scope) affiliated company, within the ICANN Community, responsible for Stewardship. Best Paul PS Sorry for the delay in replying - I am traveling and my day job is getting in the way of rapid replies. Quoting Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc@gmail.com>:
the affiliate would be the "Post-Transition Oversight/Accountability Mechanism" ("PTOAM"?). Presumably, this would keep the IANA Functions operations inside of ICANN as a (functionally separated) unit. The PTOAM would then be much like Contract Co. (although [possibly] "affiliated" with ICANN rather than completely independent).
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> wrote:
-----Original Message----- On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:58:30PM +0100, Paul M Kane - CWG wrote:
I would like to specifically ask Sidley to give formal advise on how best to ensure an affiliate company (as part of ICANN Community) can be the custodian for the Stewardship role currently undertaken by
NTIA.
I thought in the Sidley documents, ICANN was taking the Stewardship role currently held by NTIA, and PTI does the IANA part, at least if there's
an
affiliate company. Did I misunderstand?
You did not misunderstand the Sidley-Austin discussion draft. You are, I think, misunderstanding Paul Kane. Paul seems to be asking that the Affiliate be more like the Contract Co.
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