IANA and what is to come 10 years hence? (was: Re: [governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still…))

[Roland Perry]

In message <1ADD48F6-FFA6-48ED-8992-4AA4B5C6932E at istaff.org>, at 
19:40:00 on Fri, 3 Aug 2012, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> writes
>Milton -
>
>   I don't see the USG making policy for DNS names or IP address management,
>   and yet setting such policy was definitely done in long past by folks operating
>   under USG contracts.  Policy development is now undertaken by multi-stakeholder
>   participants in the community.  Are you aware of critical Internet resource policy
>   being set by USG via its unique IANA contract relationship?

There are several policy issues encapsulated in the IANA contract, that 
have not been through ICANN's traditional PDP. The most obvious being 
that IANA should be on US soil, but here are several others of that ilk.

-- 
Roland Perry

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