<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 22 Sep 2016, at 5:06 PM, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" class="">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 22 Sep 2016, at 4:52 PM, John Levine <<a href="mailto:icggov@johnlevine.com" class="">icggov@johnlevine.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Please remember that this is still to be discussed on the floor, and there’s always a chance<br class="">for amendments and/or an interesting US Congress maneuver known as a “filibuster"<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Not going to happen, the Republicans are already complaining that the<br class="">Dems are keeping them in session so the Reps can't go home and<br class="">campaign for their imperilled seats.<br class=""><br class="">I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz tries a floor amendment, but I don't<br class="">see how it's going to succeed on the floor if it already failed in<br class="">committee.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Ah, perhaps I did not provide sufficient context - this is the proposed CR text<br class="">from the Senate _republicans_ and it is intentionally “clean”, i.e. it doesn’t include <br class="">any riders to change spending levels. To the extent that the Senate democrats <br class="">(who have said they won’t accept such due to issues such as the Flint MI water<br class="">situation) want to open it up to add riders, then it is not clear if that provides an <br class="">opportunity for introduction of the “IANA transition prohibition” clause. </div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>As many of you are no doubt already aware, the US Senate did indeed pass the above </div><div>mentioned Continuing Resolution and omitted any rider which would prevent the IANA </div><div>Stewardship transition from occurring. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>While we cannot be 100% certain until the stewardship transition actually happens,</div><div>the CR being passed without any prohibition is very good progress. The next step </div><div>is consideration and passage of CR in the US House – this is expected later tonight </div><div>or sometime tomorrow. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>There was a statement from Senator Cruz regarding the US Senate not stopping </div><div>the IANA stewardship transition: see here for specifics - </div><div><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/" class="">http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>FYI,</div><div>/John </div><div><br class=""></div><div>p.s. my views alone</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>