<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">McTim,<div><br></div><div>Noted and thank you for your comments.<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:04 PM, McTim wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Wambua,<br><br>I wont make it for the meeting but plse register my comment on the above as follows:<br><br>1. No single government should have oversight powers over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" target="_blank">IANA </a>functions(core operational functions of the Internet).<br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's what the original White Paper said...it's just 20 years later now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>NB: IANA functions are administrative, not operational.</div>
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit">2. It is therefore best that the US government relinquishes oversight powers over the IANA function in a progressive manner i.e. by moving its relationship with <a href="http://www.icann.org/" target="_blank">ICANN</a> over IANA function from the current "Contractual" agreement to a "Cooperation" agreement locally known as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_agreement" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_agreement" target="_blank">MOA</a> and eventually an non-legal agreement sometimes known as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_understanding" target="_blank">MoU</a></td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>that's what ICANN says too:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/110207099-1099-01/attachments/ACF2EF.pdf">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/110207099-1099-01/attachments/ACF2EF.pdf</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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