Hi Paul I share your interest in seeing some suggestions from legal advisors on your points below. Thanks. Matthew On 4/7/2015 10:58 PM, Paul M Kane - CWG wrote:
Thanks Lise
I appreciate the opinion given by Sidley with respect to the functional separation and I see that it may not deliver the required safeguards.
Yes we want better functional separation, a dedicated budget and improvements to the reporting given to the community .... yes we all want ICANN's current IANA staff to deliver service but things change, especially when people/performance change..... hence.....
I would like to specifically ask Sidley to give formal advise on how best to ensure an affiliate company (as part of ICANN Community) can be the custodian for the Stewardship role currently undertaken by NTIA.
Specifically, a limited scope multi-stakeholder company with a CSC style body that in the event of ICANN's IANA staff being unable to perform to the prescribed SLE, or ICANN corporate deciding that they no longer wish to deliver the IANA service that triggers the affiliated company to: • publish an objective service orientated RFP; • invite interested parties to deliver IANA service(s) and respond to the RFP; • to select and contract with the operator best able to serve IANA’s customers.
Unfortunately my day job has caused me to undertake the next 10 days of travel, so I will be on the call(s) as and when possible. Please accept my apologies for any calls missed... and hope someone will be kind enough to express the views I have already conveyed.
Kind regards to all
Best
Paul
Quoting Lise Fuhr <lise.fuhr@difo.dk>:
Dear all,
Many of you were eager to discuss the memo from Sidley on our CWG call today. To reaffirm what I said on the call, we will have a full discussion of this memo during the high-intensity meetings on Monday and Tuesday next week.
As part of preparation for the group and for the legal counsel, we've asked that you provide written questions and comments on list. While these two phases (preparation, then discussion) seem to draw out the conversation, we believe it actually makes for a more productive discussion for all parties. Having written questions in advance allows for the group to read and digest the information, and for the legal counsel to prepare their briefing to the group. We used this approach for the Istanbul meeting and found that the preparation played an key part in the success of the discussion.
Once more I would like to encourage you to send your questions and comments to the list by 13:00 UTC on Thursday so that they may be compiled and presented to the Client Committee for their call.
Best regards,
Lise
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