Harald sez: - We will *share* with the community our opinion that this effort could help achieve a transition with less conflict and uncertainty than going straight from a CNRI-provided secretariat to an open RFP process would. is there any particular consensus determination mechanism envisioned? i.e., how will who (IASA, IAD, IESG, IAB, all of the above) figure out of the IETF community thinks that its a good idea for the IETF to agree to N years (where N seems to be an unknown value) of NeuStar before issuing an RFP? Scott (ps - my personal feeling is that the general idea is a good one but, like John, I think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before IETF community should be asked if it supports the "arrangement" so that NeuStar can find out, as they say they want to know, if the IETF community supports their initiative) _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf