[CCWG-ACCT] FW: FY16 Appropriations Act Extends IANA Transition Freeze without DOTCOM Act

[Greg Shatan]

As I read this, it does not slow anything down.  We were targeting a
transition around September 30, 2015 in any event.

Greg

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jordan Carter <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
wrote:

> Hi all, hi Milton,
>
> My understanding of the steps in the timetable was that finalising our
> proposal in January was what gave space for a transition in September at
> the earliest.
>
> Are you suggesting that instead it means one of the earlier steps can't
> start when it was intended?
>
> I.e. If NTIA could not start its consideration until 30 Sep then that does
> materially change things, timing wise. But if it could still do its review
> as part of preparing for a transition, then that wouldn't.
>
> Maybe we could ask NTIA for their view of the situation too?
>
> Cheers
> Jordan
>
> On Thursday, 17 December 2015, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> This is good news, and I hope the co-chairs of the CCWG all sit down and
>> read former Congressman Boucher's message out loud - better yet, sing it to
>> the tune of Jingle Bells! - together. The idea that we have to truncate our
>> process and twist ourselves into pretzels or cave to unreasonable demands
>> from the board in order to meet an arbitrary schedule is now, I think,
>> officially dead.
>> --MM
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > It's also noteworthy that (b) has been added saying that the
>> restriction shall
>> > not apply in fiscal year 2017. That's a nice statement of intention by
>> the
>> > drafters of this provision that by the commencement of fiscal year 2017
>> in
>> > October of next year the transition will be complete.
>> >
>> > I don't believe that the adoption of this language in any way reflects
>> a stepping
>> > back by Congress from the bipartisan consensus which has now been formed
>> > in both the House and the Senate to support the IANA transition as long
>> as the
>> > NTIA’s originally announced 4 principles for ICANN accountability are
>> in place
>> > and are enforceable as part of the transition plan.
>> >
>> > Please let me know if you have questions.
>> >
>> > Rick
>> >
>> > SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds made available by
>> > 21 this Act may be used to relinquish the responsibility of
>> > 22 the National Telecommunications and Information Ad ministration,
>> during
>> > fiscal year 2016, with respect to
>> > 24 Internet domain name system functions, including respon-
>> > 1 sibility with respect to the authoritative root zone file and
>> > 2 the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions.
>> > 3 (b) Nothwithstanding any other law, subsection (a)
>> > 4 of this section shall not apply in fiscal year 2017.
>> >
>> >
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>
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> Sent on the run, apologies for brevity
>
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