[governance] DMP} Statement on Process and Objectives for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance

[Milton L Mueller]

From: David Conrad [mailto:drc at virtualized.org]

>Something else. I was referring to the times when there was a perception that Jon didn't
>abide by his own rules (allocations of IP address blocks outside existing policies, at least as >understood by the folks who ran the RIRs at the time, and redelegations that appeared not
>to follow the letter and/or spirit of RFC 1591) as well as later times (after ICANN was
> established) when IANA performance (in terms of response time to fulfill requests) was
> so bad that it threatened a complete fracturing of the IANA functions or the times when
>ICANN refused to perform IANA functions because the requesters didn't abide by then
>ICANN policies (e.g., refusal to update name servers when ccTLD admins didn't enter
>into agreements with ICANN).

OK, interesting. The early problems with Postel acting ultra vires can be attributed to the informality of the early organizational arrangements. That is indeed what the audit function is supposed to prevent.

Those later examples, however, are not things that could be corrected through an external oversight or audit authority. Such oversight merely assures that the changes conformed to established procedures and policies before being implemented. What you are talking about is some form of performance requirement in the first case, and bad policies in the second case.

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