[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4

[Norbert Bollow]

John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
> > John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
> >>   If someone can point out another organization (other than the USG)
> >>   which has been consciously releasing its control over the Internet in
> >>   preference to multistakeholder mechanisms, I'd love to hear about it.
> > 
> > I think the key question is whether this "IANA contract" event is
> > a continuation of that USG policy of "consciously releasing its control
> > over the Internet", or whether it is a change of policy aiming at
> > asserting and protecting some (greater?) degree of control, possibly
> > in reaction to demands to strengthen the UN role in Internet Governance.
> 
> Is there any evidence to support such a question, or is this purely a
> rhetorical exercise?

According to RFC 2850 (published in the year 2000), the ICANN's IANA
department is acting "as IANA on behalf of the IETF", and its
appointment to this role was approved by IAB.

I understand this as implying that in the year 2000, the US Government
was not opposed that that perspective on IANA.

Now the US Government apparantly believes to have the authority to
unilaterally decide who performs the IANA function.

This looks to me like the US Government taking back authority that it
had previously given away (or at least pretended to give away).

So I feel quite justified in asking whether this is a policy change of
some kind, or what is it?

Greetings,
Norbert
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