On Mar 23, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Milton L Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: John Curran [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Your characterization: "eliminate the accountability" >> The actual statement: "ensure appropriate accountability mechanisms" > > The end of the IANA contract WILL eliminate the accountability that comes > with NTIA as principal of the IANA contract and ICANN as agent. Factual and > definite. > > In the I* statement, "ensure appropriate accountability mechanisms" is just a > bunch of words in a statement. At best, it is a declaration of your intention > to do something - as yet unspecified - to address the issue.
Correct. We will need the community to specify what is necessary for accountability mechanisms. > So my characterization is accurate. The only known form of external > accountability is being eliminated, and not replaced with anything definite. Milton - Please do not mischaracterize the statement as a declaration that accountability mechanisms have been considered and deemed sufficient, since that is not what it says... I am actually quite proud of the fact that the I* statement did not judge the current accountability measures, or suggest specific accountability mechanisms, as those are matters for the community to consider. > What's especially telling, however, is that in your plan accountability is > basically an afterthought, something that will, if we are lucky, be bolted on > to the architecture of your solution. In the IGP plan, accountability via > structural separation is at the core of the architecture. Actually, the question of the NTIA IANA contract transition does raise a valid question about how we demonstrate the accountability of the entire system to the global Internet community. I believe this means that we'll need to have a discussion specifically of IANA accountability (with respect to performance of the actual IANA functions) and also a discussion of overall ICANN system accountability, dealing more with the indirect accountability issues that may arise NTIA transition of oversight. I believe that your efforts here are not disjoint with the discussions which need to occur, but simply ahead of the process by a short number of days. I am attending ICANN this week in Singapore predominantly to gain an understanding of the process which will be launched, and hope to have more information to share with the ARIN community by mid-week. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
