This is an example of the wording that the US Government is now using when talking about the future of Internet governance. It helps when thinking about the properties of a deliverable IANA transition proposal.

Internet Governance: Multistakeholder, Multilateral Sectors Can Coexist

Internet Governance: Multistakeholder Consensus With Multilateral Affirmation
by Daniel Sepulveda*

"One of the issues at the center of discussions over the future of Internet governance is how multilateral and multistakeholder institutions with an interest in working on Internet-related issues can coexist without duplication or conflict and without threatening to undermine the Internet and its promise. In an ideal world, each would learn from the other, and the activity of one would only add value to the other".


Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2014/06/20140618301689.html#ixzz35O9PZiGR

*Sepulveda serves as the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state and coordinator for international communications and information policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.

Sam Lanfranco