On 02/12/2014 16:55, Milton L Mueller wrote:
If we have a contracted IANA that is separable from ICANN, periodically renewed, and if the MRT is authorized to make the kind of mission creep about which Malcolm is justifiably concerned the basis for non-renewal, then I think our transition plan will allay most if not all of the need for Track 1 changes.
I agree, as you say, *provided* that the PRT is indeed authorised to make that kind of mission creep the basis for non-renewal. Is it this group's intention that the PRT be so authorised?
On the other hand if we have a non-contracted IANA, imperfectly separable or not separable, or one not regularly or periodically renewed, then virtually all of what Malcom talks about must go into Track 1, as far as I am concerned.
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