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.