[ga] Boston Working Group

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

I think this is an excellent time to consider reviving the Boston Working 
Group to shape an approach to restructuring ICANN. Any chance of that, Karl?

Bill Semich
.NU Domain

At 02:36 PM 3/21/2002, Karl Auerbach wrote:

>There are several reasons why the IANA contract should be transferred to a
>distinct and separate entity with no overlapping management or employees.
>
>   - Having IANA and ICANN as separate bodies would make it clear who is
>     deciding any particular question and who is taking any particular
>     action.
>
>     Today, with the overlapping personnel, it is virtually impossible
>     to distinguish the decisions and acts of IANA from those of ICANN.
>     And, due to the apparently non-existant cost accounting practices of
>     ICANN management, there is no way to apportion the actual costs to
>     each body.
>
>   - ICANN is in no financial position to be subdising the United States
>     government.  Yet that is what ICANN is doing when it undertakes
>     the IANA contract under a zero-dollar purchase order from the US
>     gov't.
>
>   - The IANA function is essentially a clerical job with vanishingly
>     few discretionary functions.  There is no need to throw IANA into
>     the political malstrom that is ICANN.
>
>                 --karl--
>

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