Thanks, Andrew. I read your remarks and listened to the Q&A part of the
recording. From my perspective, a good job was done.
I thought Senator McCaskill had some excellent questions for those opposed to
the transition. She pointed to a bipartisan bill that she and Senator Rubio had
written that passed without a negative ballot in both the House and Senate,
that said that the US is interested in an open Internet in which government has
a voice but no control, and asked them what changed. Their answer was not a
good one.
I believe that Senator Fischer and Cantwell, if I'm not mistaken, also had some
excellent questions for you and others, that were frankly at the heart of USG's
real concerns. Instead of one ccTLD, they have a cluster - notably .us, .mil,
and .gov. They wanted to be sure that their ccTLD(s) would remain theirs. The
answer came from one of the other panelists, and said that if DoD and GSA
wanted to write a contract, as opposed to depending on precedent, they were
sure that could be worked out - and in any event, he foresaw no action that
would compromise that any more than and other ccTLD.
And the point was made repeatedly, by you and others, that further delay served
no useful purpose. From the sound of the members speaking, that viewpoint was
accepted.
So - well done.
On May 24, 2016, at 3:36 PM, IAB Chair <iab-chair(_at_)iab(_dot_)org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Today I was invited to appear before the United States Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at the hearing on
“Examining the Multistakeholder Plan for Transitioning the Internet
Assigned Number Authority.” I spoke in my role as IAB Chair. Still,
I should emphasise that my remarks are not a consensus position of the
IAB, so if you think I said something boneheaded, blame me and not the
IAB as a whole.
My submitted tesimony is available on the IAB site at
<https://www.iab.org/2016/05/24/iab-chair-testifies-before-u-s-senate-at-iana-transition-hearing/>.
Video of the hearing is archived at
<http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=418B1D81-1F0B-4E09-BB71-A98FBABE42B9>
The transition of IANA stewardship is still proceeding. If you want
to follow more, I suggest discussing it on the IANAPLAN WG list,
ianaplan(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.
Best regards,
Andrew
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IAB Chair (Andrew Sullivan)
iab-chair(_at_)iab(_dot_)org
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