On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 09:45:51PM +0000, Milton L Mueller wrote:
Come on, Andrew. That model is no more complicated than either the hybrid (legal separation) or the internal. People keep overlooking the massive internal bylaw changes that have to occur to make the internal models acceptable and workable.
I can see an argument about quite how complicated the bylaw changes would be. I am not entirely convinced, but I can certainly see its force. By contrast, it seems to me that setting up an organization that is tightly confined to IANA has _got_ to be much less work than setting up an organization that is responsible for accountability over policy. You can put lots of restrictions on what can get into the IANA organization, and thereby restrict the kinds of policies that it is allowed to implement to be just like the kinds of thing that are already done routinely. All of that is working fine anyway, as far as anyone has been able to say, so just emulating the thing that's working shouldn't be a tall order. Building a new set of accountability controls over policy, on the other hand, sounds like a messy job that could take ages (for some value of "ages", where one such possible value is ∞). Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com