[Internal-cg] Questions from webinars

[Mueller, Milton L]

From: Mary Uduma [mailto:mnuduma at yahoo.com]

Are you saying that CSC is independent of ICANN?

MM: Yes. We must distinguish between entities that form around ICANN and ICANN the corporation. CSC as you say is constituted by the ICANN community through defined processes recognized in ICANN’s bylaws, but it is the IANA names customers, not ICANN-corporate, that it represents.

Is PTI not providing service to ICANN POLICY based on a legal contract? Would CSC oversight not be included in that contract? Who would evaluate the performance of this contract?

MM: CSC oversight would be in ICANN’s bylaws, not in the PTI contract. I am not sure what you mean by “ICANN POLICY” but maybe you just mean the community around ICANN as opposed to ICANN corporate.

Would ICANN-POLICY  as the sole owner of PTI not have the powers to sack PTI as IFO for IANA function for the names only, including appointing another service provider? Just like the IETF-AIB and the RIRs can walk away if not satisfied  with their  IFOs, in this case, ICANN?

MM: No, ICANN can change PTI managers (more accurately, instruct its appointed board members to sack the individuals who work for PTI) but it cannot choose another IFO unilaterally. Only the community via the IFR process can do that.

Is NTIA intending to hand over its  IANA function oversight to CSC?

MM: No. NTIA is handing over its stewardship to the “global multistakeholder community” which includes these new institutional mechanisms that are defined in the names, numbers and protocols communities.

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