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

[Lee W McKnight]

My bet is we can all raise a toast on Saturday; or after midnight Friday.


The transition is done, except for a few more days of noise.


In an alternate universe where Trump did not melt down Monday, maybe we could imagine a different outcome because of Trump coincidentally adopting the Cruz view of the transition a day or two before Cruz endorsed Trump.


But in this one....where the Republican leadership could not care less what Cruz says....and can barely believe who they have to pretend to be favoring as their party's presidential candidate; congrats will soon be in order.


Lee



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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org <governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org> on behalf of John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:50 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] ISOC-NY joins coalition of groups supporting the completion of the IANA Transition - hearing is Weds

On 22 Sep 2016, at 5:06 PM, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org<mailto:jcurran at istaff.org>> wrote:

On 22 Sep 2016, at 4:52 PM, John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com<mailto: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/

FYI,
/John

p.s. my views alone



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