ASO Comment on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws

[Izumi Okutani <izumi@xxxxxxxxx>]

The ASO has reviewed the Draft New ICANN Bylaws developed, to reflect the 
recommendations contained in the proposals by the IANA Stewardship Transition 
Coordination Group (ICG) and Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN 
Accountability (CCWG-Accountability), from the Internet numbers community 
perspective.

The ICANN accountability for the Internet numbers community is based on the 
contracts between ICANN and the RIRs ; the ASO MoU and SLA on the IANA 
Numbering Services.
The Draft New ICANN Bylaws reflects key points in the ICANN accountability from 
the ASO perspective in this regard, and we support the draft document as 
proposed.

We have confirmed that, based on the CCWG-Accountability proposal, the Draft 
New ICANN Bylaws clearly states number resources related matters are out of 
scope of IRP and reconsideration, which is essential for us in the ICANN 
accountability for the Internet numbers community.

The ASO is aware of discussion on section 1.1(d)(ii) regarding grandfathering 
of existing agreements, and have no objection to removal of that section if the 
community wishes to do so.



Best Regards,

Oscar Robles
Chair of NRO Executive Committee for the ASO