[GTALUG] ICANN's Proposal to Move IANA

[Gordon Chillcott]

Hi, again:

Comes of doing things when you're not awake yet.

I misspelled my own e-mail address.   It should be gordontc at look.ca

Sorry about that . . . 

Gordon


On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 12:42 -0400, Gordon Chillcott wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> You probably know that in March 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce's
> National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
> announced its intent to “transition its stewardship role of the IANA
> Functions and related management”.   This meant that NTIA will no longer
> oversee a contract with ICANN to manage IANA.   ICANN will have to do it
> itself.
> 
> To get this started, NTIA called on ICANN to “coordinate” the drafting
> of a proposal to transition this stewardship role to the broader global
> multi-stakeholder community.    This meant drafting of a proposal of its
> own and inviting other proposals from IETF and the various numbers
> registries (ARIN, RIPE and the others) and then coordinating them all
> into one proposal to present to NTIA.
> 
> ICANN now has a (second) draft of its proposal “ready for comment” (this
> request for public comment is fairly standard for ICANN policy
> documents).
> 
> This one is important enough that we're asking you to look it over and
> accept ICANN's invitation to comment.   Comments are going to be
> accepted until May 20 – that's short, I know, but there it is.
> 
> Now, this is a pretty complex document – it's a kind of complex matter,
> involving contract law (in California, where ICANN is registered), the
> concerns of a lot of stakeholders outside the US, and the need for ICANN
> to be seen to be accountable.
> 
> So, here it is.   Send your comments to me at gordon at look.ca and I'll
> compile them into a group comment for ICANN.
> 
> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cwg-stewardship-draft-proposal-without-annexes-22apr15-en.pdf
> 
> I'm not sure you want to tackle the proposal with annexes.   It's
> painful.
> 
> Enjoy
> 
> Gordon 
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