[governance] ISOC-NY joins coalition of groups supporting the completion of the IANA Transition - hearing is Weds

[John Curran]

Folks - 

  Not definitive by any means, but quite encouraging – the committee draft for a short-term 
  Continuing Resolution for US Government Funding that going to the Senate floor does _not_
  presently include the proposed prohibition on IANA transition…

  http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/297260-cruz-internet-fight-not-in-spending-bill <http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/297260-cruz-internet-fight-not-in-spending-bill>

  Please remember that this is still to be discussed on the floor, and there’s always a chance
  for amendments and/or an interesting US Congress maneuver known as a “filibuster"

/John

p.s. my views alone

> On 19 Sep 2016, at 5:56 PM, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 19, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu <mailto:milton at gatech.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> John, we are in violent agreement about most of the important issues.
>>  
>> But aside from the empirical validity of the analysis below, I am still not sure what is accomplished by telling us on this list that we should have finished the transition plan 16 months ago.
> 
> I believe that the administration is doing everything possible to make the transition
> happen, but it simply may not be possible due to the politically charged period which
> precedes a Presidential election.  This is important to remember if the transition does 
> not continue, including remembering that we were all warned about risk of delay when 
> the timeline was laid out. 
> 
>> As far as I am concerned, it should have happened 10 years ago. We all know what issues held the process up (separation of IANA from ICANN and membership - for which the ICANN board and staff are responsible; and role of governments, for which GAC and ALAC are responsible). Had we abolished the GAC as I have advocated for nearly a decade, Cruz et al would not have a leg to stand on in these debates. Without GAC it would be impossible to paint a plausible picture that we are giving the internet away to China, Russia et al. But I don’t think it’s relevant to point that out now.
> 
> Certainly that change re GAC would alter the dynamics of the argument somewhat, 
> although its not just the GAC aspect but also other treaty organizations being mentioned
> in some of the coverage.  I also believe that separation of the names community from 
> ICANN (as you proposed) – thus making ICANN a vendor to the names community, 
> would  have also simplified things and make the accountability work much more 
> straightforward. 
> 
> If this all were being done in 2015, there would be options (e.g. veto) which would 
> be quite severe but would not result in direct impact to the Presidential election.
> As it is, we’ve providing an unusually complicated proposal much later than was 
> originally intended, and this is important for folks to keep in mind if the transition 
> ends up being delayed due to our present continuing resolution antics. 
> 
> /John
> 
> p.s. my views alone,
> 
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