On 5/19/24 3:13 PM, David Conrad via NANOG wrote:
When you say “ICANN” who, exactly, do you mean? ICANN the organization or ICANN the community? If the former, ICANN Org can’t do anything outside of ICANN community defined policy or process or risk all sorts of unpleasantness from internal policies to lawsuits to the ICANN Board being spilled. If you mean the latter, ICANN org must abide by the ICANN community’s demands or you get to the same point as previously mentioned. That’s the whole point behind the “Empowered Community."
Suppose the community wanted to change this or make a formal policy on root server hosting requirements. Where would this be done? Could a party submit a proposal to ICANN via the policy development process? If not where should the community start this? Please note, I'm not taking a position, only asking where the community needs to start. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net