1. IANA – Plan B Dr Willie Black 25 March 2003

2. The Problem ICANN/IANA not responsive to requests from non- contracted ccTLDs ICANN/IANA has not agreed operational procedures with those who need the service ICANN/IANA mixing policy with operations ICANN/IANA not costing operation clearly

3. Current Contracts Situation Doc – Verisign to propagate the root zone file Doc – ICANN/IANA to maintain database ccTLDs – IANA ???

4. ccIANA ftom Shanghai Technical –Schema, Authentication, Process Legal –Very lightweight contract (call it an MoU!) –Authority to operator to put into root –Authority to remove temporarily in extremis –Payment of costs Regionally distributed Political –Acceptance by DoC –Support of regional governments

5. Reality USG has renewed with ICANN (6 months+) USG probably not willing to distribute IANA function or have outside US Possibility that USG will open a tender if ICANN/IANA fails to address community needs?

6. Possible Criteria for IANA No interference in national policy-making No subjectivity judgments by IANA??? Ring-fenced funding & Not-for-profit regime Separate contracts ONLY for IANA part Specification and Management of operating policies only by the TLD managers and IANA Well-defined procedures and SLAs

7. Questions Agree criteria with changes? Publish in communiqué? Agree technical spec? Who? How? Should we have dialogue with ICANN? How? Dialogue with other parties? Who? How?