Milton L Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology

> On Jul 29, 2016, at 16:44, matthew shears <[log in to unmask]> 

> “The specific purpose of the Corporation is to operate exclusively to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation (“ICANN”), by performing the IANA functions on behalf of ICANN.”

MM: I would like to see the sentence end at "performing the Iana functions."

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> This was agreed by the CWG and addresses the issue of purpose.  The point in the comments is to address the issue of potential evolution of the members in the future, which the language above does not account for.
> 

Ok agree with the need for that 

--MM


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>> On 29/07/2016 20:59, Mueller, Milton L wrote:
>> Do you think the specific purpose of the organization ought to say something about performing the IANA functions?
>> 
>> Dr. Milton L Mueller
>> Professor, School of Public Policy
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>> Internet Governance Project
>> http://internetgovernance.org/
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