Patrik,

I do not disagree that the IANA Department at ICANN does more than the contract with NTIA describes. What the ICG is discussing is replacing the stewardship by NTIA for the IANA functions that the NTIA oversees. The functions that NTIA oversees are described in the contract and those are the only activities done by the IANA department that have oversight by NTIA. Any other, non-contractual activities of the IANA department which may be described in SAC-067 have no contractual relationship with NTIA and it stewardship.

-- Elise

From: Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se>
Date: Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7:09 PM
To: Elise Gerich <elise.gerich@icann.org>
Cc: Manal Ismail <manal@tra.gov.eg>, "internal-cg@icann.org" <internal-cg@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] ICG FAQ ..

On 29 sep 2014, at 22:50, Elise Gerich <elise.gerich@icann.org> wrote:

Question #4 quotes SAC –067 in answer to “What are the IANA functions? “ I do not dispute that SAC-067 is a well written and informative document. I do think a better reference document would be NTIA’s contract, SA1301-12-RP-IANA, which defines the IANA functions over which NTIA has stewardship.

I disagree as what the IANA function does is not described by the contract, the contract describes (in a not very effective way) some of the things IANA does. I.e. there are things IANA function does that is not under the contract, and further, the contract is not very well written. Russ Mundy is better on explaining the difficult situation regarding the contract.

Patrik Fältström