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In my view, and for what it is worth, simply letting the contract expire would not result in the IANA functions transferring to ICANN or a new counterparty entity such as Contract Co. ýSome affirmative transfer of authority is required. </div>
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<div><b>To: </b>'Steve DelBianco'; Phil Corwin; 'Accountability Cross Community'</div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>RE: [CCWG-Accountability] FW: Breaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Phil Corwin; Accountability Cross Community<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-Accountability] FW: Breaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On 12/10/14, 5:57 PM, "Phil Corwin" <<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><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></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Breaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Language in the
<a href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/RU/RU00/20141210/102799/BILLS-113rcp113-59pp.pdf">
bill</a> states:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">SEC. 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.</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall expire on September 30, 2015.</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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.</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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).</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">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.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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