<div dir="ltr">Dear Suresh,<div>I suspect the authority may be the same as that that allows ICANN to speak for "<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">stakeholders across the global Internet community</span>" </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions</a> </span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:115%">Best wishes</span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:115%">Deirdre</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2015 at 11:31, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The question here would be how or why he can speak for congress as a whole as opposed to current administration policy.<br>
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--srs<br>
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> On 20-Oct-2015, at 8:48 PM, Pranesh Prakash <<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On 20 October 2015 1:45:07 pm GMT+01:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Come on, folks.  Asking a fairly ambiguous question, getting an equally<br>
>> ambiguous answer and then making a mountain out of a molehill just to<br>
>> score a point doesn’t sound like a very productive way to go.<br>
><br>
> Dear Suresh,<br>
> Could you please point out the ambiguity in the questions and suggest how we could rephrase it to avoid that ambiguity the next time we ask it?  Thanks.<br>
><br>
> The question was:<br>
> The technical stability of the DNS doesn't depend on the jurisdiction of ICANN.  Will the US Congress support a shift in jurisdiction?  And will there be a continued support for the multistakeholder model if the jurisdiction shifts?<br>
><br>
> The transcript for the meeting will be provided soon:<br>
> <a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/tue-ncuc</a><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Pranesh<br>
><br>
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