On 04/12/2014 06:34, Eliot Lear wrote: > John, > > On 12/3/14, 6:14 PM, John Levine wrote: >> It sounds like we want the same thing here, but when I read the draft, >> I don't see it actually saying that if there's a new IANA operator, we >> need a new equally good contract. That seems to me to be worth making >> explicit. > > I think that's a fine suggestion. The discussions and conclusions of > the WG, so far as I can tell, were exclusively focused on the ICANN/NTIA > relationship, and your suggestion reinforces the conclusion by inference > (we CAN change should the need arise) and it gives people a view as to > how we would see to the continuity of the service. Yes, I agree with that and indeed I suspect it is most people's working assumption, to the extent that we overlooked writing it down ;-). Brian