<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Sivasubramanian M <<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p>I did have an idea, more so from Ian's earlier response, that the central issue is one of what you call "editorial control". I don't expect a political decision on Internationalization of the IANA functions, but US probably knows that these functions would not eternally remain as a DoC controlled operation. In the long term (how long it is is left to the comfort if the reader), US would open up. If not bequeath the functions to a committe of 200, IANA might at least include a few experts from different geographic regions in a gesture of Internationalization. US would know that a posture of total unwillingness causes undesirable moves such as imaginative proposals for a Circus for Internet Governance.</p></blockquote>I suspect that the various parts of the US Government, when considering Internet</div><div>matters, are quite capable of recognizing when circumstances warrant a change </div><div>on how the various IANA functions are performed. </div><div><br></div><div>After all, the USG has seen the transition from top-down formal contracting for these </div><div>functions to a more open bottom-up multi-stakeholder management of critical Internet </div><div>resources, including the decentralization of IP address management to the RIRs, the</div><div>formation of ICANN, and replacement of the JPA with the Affirmation of Commitments. </div><div><br></div><div>None of the above would have been possible coming from "a posture of total unwillingness"...</div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite">As an answer to all these undesirable distractions, why not offer a glimpse of what is to come 10 years or less or more later ?</blockquote><br></div><div>Why should we presume that such a roadmap should come from the USG, as opposed</div><div>the Internet community itself?</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: Also thinking aloud, on my own, hats on the hanger...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>