At 17/12/2014 12:21 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
Alan
-----Original Message-----
I look forward to the seeing how that can be assured in a potentially disruptive switch of the IANA operator where it may be that there is no continuity of either staff or systems.
I'd ask you to read those sections of the IANA contract which require the contractor to cooperate with any successor and to ensure a smooth transition, namely C.7.3 and I.61 of the current IANA functions contract between ICANN and the NTIA.
In effect, we have been living with your "potentially disruptive" situation for more than a decade.
Indeed we have. And perhaps that is a small part of why there has been no change.
I would like to hear more about how individual internet users are helped by a situation in which there is no recourse if the current IANA contractor either becomes incompetent or uses its control of the IaNA functions to circumvent bottom up policy making.
They would not be. And I would never advocate such a situation. We just differ on how to resolve it. Alan