<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:26 , Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" class="">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Yes indeed! Overall I will expect the congress would not be unaware of what they are approving. </p></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Then your experience with US Congress is rather limited.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">FWIW, for numbers community there won't be significant change if congress stall the transition since they have always handled their accountability independent of ICANN. </p><p dir="ltr" class="">However it's a big deal for names community as irrespective of the transition, an ICANN 3.0 is in the making and it's good that ICANN board agreed to proceed with the non-transition dependent part of the proposal irrespective of the outcome from USG.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Regards</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my LG G4<br class="">
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, I expect that other than making USG look really bad, congress can’t really do too much harm directly. My concern is that if congress goes back on promises made by USG once again, there may be a fracturous move to proceed with transition that gets traction in at least some part of the community and essentially declares ICANN irrelevant for the cooperating parts of the community whoever that may comprise.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>This would be the worst possible outcome.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">
<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Jul 2016 9:03 p.m., "Owen DeLong" <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Mike Silber covered it pretty well… There’s no real traction to block it, but the concern is if it gets buried in a rider on another bill.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2016, at 03:42 , Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Hello Honest,</p><p dir="ltr" class="">There is a request to not spend the NTIA budget on transition and also a few members of the house are pushing against the transition but I understand it may not be a major thing to worry about(will leave it to Owen to say if it's been more significant lately). </p><p dir="ltr" class="">As to what we can do, there is really noting except to use every opportunity to remind the USG that the stewardship transition was their plan and the multistakeholder community has delivered on their part of the task based on USG's plan. It will be in the interest of USG to keep to her plan. The Africann/AFRALO community indicated this in their recent statement:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/2016-June/011609.html" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/2016-June/011609.html</a></p><p dir="ltr" class="">Regards</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my LG G4<br class="">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Jul 2016 12:50, "Honest Ornella GANKPA" <<a href="mailto:honest1989@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">honest1989@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello Owen,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can you explain further what the US congress is trying to do? What can the Internet community do to avoid seeing community efforts wasted if such a bill is passed?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Honest Ornella GANKPA<br class=""></div></div><div class="">Network engineer <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div href="http://WISESTAMP_SIG_gmail_session" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-30 21:47 GMT+01:00 Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Now if we can just avoid the US Congress doing something stupid (which the senate<div class="">is already trying todo through an amendment to a defense appropriations bill), we’ll</div><div class="">be all set.</div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div></font></span><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:15 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Yes this is indeed progress...</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Congrats to the CRISP and ICANN teams....</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Noah</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 Jun 2016 17:18, "Danny" <<a href="mailto:afahounko@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">afahounko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/1805-icann-and-regional-internet-registries-sign-sla-for-the-iana-numbering-services" target="_blank" class="">http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/1805-icann-and-regional-internet-registries-sign-sla-for-the-iana-numbering-services</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations to CRISP and ICANN teams.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a good example.</div></div>
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