-----Original Message----- It does not serve as a rationale for Names for whom the PTI is the IFO and for which there is a separation process defined. It therefore cannot be Names' rationale.
That's not quite correct, Avri. PTI is a controlled corporate subsidiary of ICANN. Therefore, for separability purposes, taking names IFO away from PTI is also taking it away from ICANN, as I am sure you know. So nondiscriminatory reassignment of the trademarks and domains _can_ be a rationale here.
As far as I can tell Names rationale for not leaving it with ICANN and moving it to a suitable trust is compromise with the other 2 OCs.
If that is _your_ rationale, it is fine. It works for me, and probably for 2 others. It is not the rationale that the rest of us have been citing.