Donna. I dont think policy issues arising as a result of delegation and redelegation of TLDs are the same as the policy issues arising as a result of contracting a new IANA operator. We're talking about C.7.3 from the IANA Functions Contract. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Donna Austin <Donna.Austin@ariservices.com> wrote:
Guru
My understanding of the contingent policy issues you identify are taken into account by IANA in their review of any delegation/redelegation requests.
Thanks,
Donna
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*From:* cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org [mailto: cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Guru Acharya *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 October 2014 2:11 PM *To:* Milton L Mueller *Cc:* cwg-stewardship@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [CWG-Stewardship] [IANA-issues] Fwd: Names Community vs the other two communities
Milton: I agree that changing the IANA operator is a technical decision and not a policy decision; however there are contingent policy issues that may arise due to this technical decision - such as jurisdiction of the new IANA operator, financing of the new IANA operator - where GAC/ALAC participation may be beneficial.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> wrote:
In my opinion, while "day to day oversight" is technical/operational; any "major review oversight" will involve policy issues.
It depends on what you mean by “policy issues.” I would disagree that the choice of an IANA operator is a way to make global policy for the DNS. What you call “major review oversight” is, I think, nothing more than the power to change the IANA functions operator.
