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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Curran<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After all, the USG has seen the transition from top-down formal contracting for these <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">functions to a more open bottom-up multi-stakeholder management of critical Internet <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Well, at best, you can say that the USG runs a public comment period, but the contract is drafted by the USG and for the USG. Sort of like the
way the ITU is going to listen to online public comment as it does the ITRs, right?
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<p class="MsoNormal">including the decentralization of IP address management to the RIRs<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Aside from ARIN’s creation, this had nothing to do with the Commerce Department, but was done when the NSF was in control. It’s not likely this
authority would be delegated to Europe or Asia had the Commerce Dept been in control. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">, the<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>formation of ICANN, and replacement of the JPA with the Affirmation of Commitments. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] the formation of ICANN was supposed to lead to full privatization after “two years at most” to quote Magaziner, perhaps you can explain to us
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<p class="MsoNormal">None of the above would have been possible coming from "a posture of total unwillingness"...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Perhaps he remembers the Bush administration…</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why should we presume that such a roadmap should come from the USG, as opposed<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>the Internet community itself?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">[Milton L Mueller] Because the USG controls ICANN and the IANA contract.
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