[governance] Digital Agenda: Commission welcomes improvements in new IANA contract

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAFV+OJu0iddDsexbRu3QqDnCgAAAEAAAAJNQn7reiqJNist3e
n0qEGgBAAAAAA==@yahoo.com>, at 17:38:39 on Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Imran Ahmed 
Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> writes

>How it is through another angle? How the IANA functions will be performed
>and What will be the ICANN's remaining function.
>
>IANA functions (A) were assigned to ICANN under a contract by DoC, whereas
>the ICANN was bound to submit the performance report to DoC on monthly
>basis.
>However, (with the passage of time) ICANN started other operations/functions
>B,C ... including its primary function A.
>Now if the DoC assign the Contract of IANA Functions (A) to Contractor-2
>(other than ICANN)
>
>What will be the function of ICANN? Ans: Obviously ICANN will be performing
>B, C ... functions
>and
>How the IANA Functions A will be performed,
>1.     Either a formal request will be sent through DoC or on behalf of Doc
>to Contractor-2 and/or
>2.     Registry will contact Contractor-2 directly.
>
>Here the function of ICANN's Involvement in standard operations & functions
>will be reduced and most probably, ICANN will not be able to supervise the
>root modification requests sending to the Contractor-2 unless if it is
>specified in the contract with Registries (Registry Operators Contract to
>send their request to ICANN for root modifications/update).

That's an interesting comment on what exactly it is that IANA is doing, 
and for whom.

For example, if there's a new cctld (such as South Sudan) as I 
understand it this require ICANN's approval for it, recognising the 
public interest involved when new countries are accepted by UN, ISO etc, 
to be added to the root.

But if in future years the operator of .ss wants to update its DNS for 
purely technical reasons, perhaps that's a matter directly between them 
and IANA (although there's still an issue of NTIA approval of changes).

-- 
Roland Perry
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