On 01-Dec-14 20:25, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
Honestly at this point I think something is not clear here. Can you confirm if this PRT is within ICANN or not because your message above is implying outside. The second question is, what are the "IANA operation" related issues that ICANN board could say no to? and how is the accountability track fixing/addressing that.
a few of us were talking about this evening over Eurodig drings and over dinner. I have come to believe the the MRT is really the ICANN Community as we know + others, but instead of sending its decisions to the Board for blessing it sends its decision to the Contract Co. for execution. It has been obvious for a while that the ICANN community and ICANN Corporate are separate. So I have no trouble imagining that for the purposes of the MRT we organize what is essentially the stakeholders invovled in the ICANN community + some other parts of the Internet community into the MRT. Pretty much exactly just as we done with the ICG. As for who pays for the whole sructure we are talking about, it should be the IANA contractor, ICANN at this point, as part of its zero cost support of the IANA function. The only thing that seems like it may require outside funding is the RFP/rebid process. And for that we just follow the example we have been taught by ICANN Corporate and Contract Co. charges the applicants for the IANA contract an application fee sufficient for the process to be, as they say, cost neutral. So it is not within ICANN, but it is formed by the ICANN Community with others. avri