Thanks Patrik, I agree with all you said below. At the same time I wonder if it would be helpful to clarify the IANA functions that are being addressed in the CWG document specifically. I know there are many outside this community (and again probably in the community as well) that will think the "IANA functions" references includes parameters and numbers… Lynn On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:19 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> wrote:
Lynn, thanks for this.
At some discussion yesterday evening it became once again clear to me that people not really into this discussion (like we are) understand what the issue is, not even on 30k feet level. So I agree with you that (not even) ICANN people do understand what this is about.
From my perspective, we have a situation today where DoC do have a contract with ICANN that covers "the IANA functions". This contract is not to be extended. When this contract is going away, the question to each one of the operational communities is "what must be done, if anything at all, given this contract does not exist any longer".
We all know that the functions the IANA Function at ICANN do is not the same set of functions that the contract covers, and many of the functions (in either of the two sets) might not require any action at all, while others do.
So, in this context, what is "the IANA functions"?
Mumble...
I think "the IANA functions" in this context is "the set of functions covered by the contract between DoC and ICANN related to the IANA Functions".
I.e. not(!) the set of functions the IANA group at ICANN is performing.
Patrik
On 7 feb 2015, at 08:09, Lynn St.Amour <Lynn@LStAmour.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a very clear and useful document, and clearly captures all the great work of the CWG and the community. Very impressive and great progress.
In reading this CWG Discussion document, it strikes me that it would be helpful to be more explicit when using the term "IANA functions" - here and likely elsewhere. There are many people following this process that are not so versed in the specifics and may assume this is talking about all the IANA functions. This confusion may or may not exist in the ICANN community (though I believe it does), and it definitely exists elsewhere.
If qualifying the term "IANA functions" is not supported, could we ask the CWG to add a few introductory paragraphs outlining the multiple Operating Communities and the basic premise behind this transition process?
Interested to see if others see the same potential for confusion, or if it just me.
Best, Lynn
On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> wrote:
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Dear all, Please share this widely with your SO/Acs, we want to get as much distribution on the Discussion Document as possible.
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