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<DIV>I agree, too.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Neither
this CCWG nor the CWG nor any community working on the IANA stewardship
transition should loose momentum – just because of interventions from whatsoever
side. I’m sure we can expect more of this in the near future. We should keep our
targets to develop the best proposal we can under the timeline we’ve set
ourselves.<BR><BR>Best regards<BR><BR>Wolf-Ulrich<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=psc@vlaw-dc.com
href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">Phil Corwin</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:06 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=sdelbianco@netchoice.org
href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org">Steve DelBianco</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=accountability-cross-community@icann.org
href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">Accountability Cross
Community</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CCWG-Accountability] FW: Breaking: U.S. Government
Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Agree on all points, Steve. <BR><BR>Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal
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<DIV><BR>On Dec 10, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Steve DelBianco <<A
href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>A reporter just asked about this, and here’s the answer I gave (speaking
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<DIV>This policy rider is not an attempt to stop the transition, as far as I
can tell. It seems designed to prod NTIA to do a short extension
of its current IANA contract, since it allows NTIA to resume using funds to
plan the transition after September 2015. </DIV>
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<DIV>I don’t think this should alarm global stakeholders or the ICANN
working groups already planning the IANA transition. We have lots of
work to do and aren’t depending on NTIA funds to help us. And
given the aggressive timelines we saw on yesterday’s initial call for the
Accountability project, we may need the extra time an IANA extension would
allow.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>—</DIV>
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<DIV>Steve DelBianco</DIV>
<DIV>Executive Director</DIV>
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href="http://blog.netchoice.org/">http://blog.netchoice.org</A></DIV>
<DIV>+1.202.420.7482</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>On 12/10/14, 5:57 PM, "Phil Corwin" <<A
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">FYI—breaking news of relevance
to the timeline for the work of this CCWG ---<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20141210_breaking_us_government_funding_bill_delays_iana_transition/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20141210_breaking_us_government_funding_bill_delays_iana_transition/</A><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.internetcommerce.org/breaking-u-s-government-funding-bill-delays-iana-transition/">http://www.internetcommerce.org/breaking-u-s-government-funding-bill-delays-iana-transition/</A><o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Breaking:
U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">On
the evening of Tuesday, September 9<SUP>th</SUP>, Congressional leaders
unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the
U.S. government through the end of September 2015. One provision of the
omnibus bill would delay the IANA transition until after the September 30,
2015 expiration of the current contract between the NTIA and ICANN.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Language
in the <A
href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/RU/RU00/20141210/102799/BILLS-113rcp113-59pp.pdf">bill</A>
states:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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540. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to
relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration during fiscal year 2015 with respect to Internet
domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the
authoritative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
functions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">(b)
Subsection (a) of this section shall expire on September 30,
2015.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">That
language, a modified version of the “Duffy Amendment” that was contained in
the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act, would allow NTIA
to start spending funds on a transition after exercising its first option to
extend the contract.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">In
addition, the explanatory report language of the Commerce-Justice-State
portion of the omnibus spending bill, in which the above language is
contained, states the following:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Internet
governance.-The agreement reiterates House and Senate language regarding the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) matters and modifies Senate language by
directing NTIA to inform appropriate Congressional committees not less than 45
days in advance of any such proposed successor contract or any other decision
related to changing NTIA's role with respect to ICANN or IANA activities. In
addition, NTIA shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations
within 45 days of enactment of this Act regarding any recourse that would be
available to the United States if the decision is made to transition to a new
contract and any subsequent decisions made following such transfer of Internet
governance are deleterious to the United States.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This
language appears to require NTIA to inform Congress 45 days prior to extending
the IANA contract or taking any other decision in regard to it; as well as to
submit a report to Congress within 45 days after the spending bill’s enactment
regarding whether the US would have any post-transition recourse if subsequent
decisions were deleterious to the U.S.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This
final bill language has already been negotiated with and accepted by Senate
Democratic and House Republican leaders and is likely to be enacted and sent
to President Obama by the weekend. It is unlikely that the White House would
veto the bill and risk a government shutdown over this IANA language (although
other provisions could become sticking points between the Administration and
Congress).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Rumors
were already circulating in Washington that NTIA was prepared to extend the
current IANA contract by at least six months in recognition of the fact that
it may be impossible for the ICANN community to design and stress test
enhanced accountability measures by the end of the current contract term, much
less have them in place by then. So the bill may have little effect on the
actual timetable for the transition. It remains to be seen what reaction to
its enactment comes from ICANN, the ICANN community, and other
nations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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