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

[John Curran]

On 22 Sep 2016, at 5:06 PM, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
> 
> On 22 Sep 2016, at 4:52 PM, John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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"
>> 
>> Not going to happen, the Republicans are already complaining that the
>> Dems are keeping them in session so the Reps can't go home and
>> campaign for their imperilled seats.
>> 
>> I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz tries a floor amendment, but I don't
>> see how it's going to succeed on the floor if it already failed in
>> committee.
> 
> Ah, perhaps I did not provide sufficient context - this is the proposed CR text
> from the Senate _republicans_ and it is intentionally “clean”, i.e. it doesn’t include 
> any riders to change spending levels.  To the extent that the Senate democrats 
> (who have said they won’t accept such due to issues such as the Flint MI water
> situation) want to open it up to add riders, then it is not clear if that provides an 
> opportunity for introduction of the “IANA transition prohibition” clause. 

As many of you are no doubt already aware, the US Senate did indeed pass the above 
mentioned Continuing Resolution and omitted any rider which would prevent the IANA 
Stewardship transition from occurring.  

While we cannot be 100% certain until the stewardship transition actually happens,
the CR being passed without any prohibition is very good progress.   The next step 
is consideration and passage of CR in the US House – this is expected later tonight 
or sometime tomorrow.   

There was a statement from Senator Cruz regarding the US Senate not stopping 
the IANA stewardship transition: see here for specifics - 
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/ <http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/>

FYI,
/John 

p.s. my views alone



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