[CWG-Stewardship] NTIA- An Update on the IANA Transition

[Alan Greenberg]

The proposal pointed to by the NTIA Blog entry 
(and by Milton's piece) is an implementation of 
the recommendation of the CWG and DT-F. But 
carried to an extreme. It allows the transition 
to occur  with no code changes and virtually no 
changes in procedure other than those which will 
be well tested prior to the transition.

I think that the temporary cloning of the entire 
RZMS is a rather extreme measure to avoid making 
coding or operational changes at the moment of 
transition, but it *IS* following the sound 
engineering practice of minimizing concurrent 
changes, and specifically ones that cannot be 
fully tested prior to the moment of transition. 
If it had been me, I would have developed the 
revised code and used the cloned system to test THAT....

As far as I can tell, this proposal has nothing 
to do with the relationship of the NTIA and 
Verisign and their cooperative agreement (other 
than altering the mechanics of what is done under the agreement).

Alan

At 22/08/2015 10:36 PM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just to mention that Milton wrote an interesting 
>blog post summary about this proposal:
>
><http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/18/whats-going-on-between-ntia-icann-and-verisign/>http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/18/whats-going-on-between-ntia-icann-and-verisign/
>
>Inline with determining consistency with what 
>DT-F proposed, it will be good to ask the 
>question of whether the proposal shared by Larry 
>will ultimately remove the administrative role 
>NTIA. The current wording in the proposal does 
>not make that clear and I think that would 
>indeed determine if we are really done with 
>stewardship transition or just scratching the surface.
>
>Regards
>Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
>Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>On 18 Aug 2015 08:31, "Seun Ojedeji" 
><<mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Larry has just posted an update on the IANA 
>transition and extension of ICANN contract. An 
>item of the update is the proposal that 
>addresses the administrative(middleman) role of 
>NTIA in the update of the root. Although the CWG 
>did not address this in its proposal due to 
>scope, it highlights some high level principles 
>(expectations) on this. It may be good to check 
>if the ICANN/Verisign proposal meets such expectations.
>
>Regards
>
>
><http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition
>
>
>An Update on the IANA Transition
>
>
>August 17, 2015 by Assistant Secretary for 
>Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling
>
>The Internet’s global multistakeholder 
>community has made tremendous progress in its 
>work to develop a proposal to transition the 
>historic stewardship role NTIA has played 
>related to Internet’s domain name system (DNS).
>
>When we 
><http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions>announced 
>our intent in March 2014 to complete the 
>privatization of the DNS, we noted that the base 
>period of our contract with ICANN to perform 
>technical functions related to the DNS, known as 
>the IANA functions, expired on September 30, 
>2015. However, it has become increasingly 
>apparent over the last few months that the 
>community needs time to complete its work, have 
>the plan reviewed by the U.S. Government and 
>then implement it if it is approved.
>
>Accordingly, in May we asked the groups 
>developing the transition documents how long it 
>would take to finish and implement their 
>proposals.  After factoring in time for public 
>comment, U.S. Government evaluation and 
>implementation of the proposals, the community 
>estimated it could take until at least September 
>2016 to complete this process. In response to 
>their feedback, we informed Congress on Friday 
>that we plan to extend our IANA contract with 
>ICANN for one year to September 30, 2016. Beyond 
>2016, we have options to extend the contract for 
>up to three additional years if needed.
>
>This one-year extension will provide the 
>community with the time it needs to finish its 
>work. The groups are already far along in 
>planning the IANA transition and are currently 
>taking comments on their IANA transition 
>proposals. As we indicated in a recent 
><http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/fr_iana_transition_comment_notice_08102015.pdf>Federal 
>Register notice, we encourage all interested 
>stakeholders to engage and weigh in on the proposals.
>
>In preparation for the implementation phase of 
>the IANA stewardship transition, NTIA also asked 
>Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal 
>detailing how best to remove NTIA’s 
>administrative role associated with root zone 
>management, which the groups working on the 
>transition were not asked to address. We asked 
>Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal 
>detailing how best to do this in a manner that 
>maintains the security, stability and resiliency 
>of the DNS. Under the current root zone 
>management system, Verisign edits and 
>distributes the root zone file after it has 
>received authorization to do so from NTIA. 
>Verisign and ICANN have developed a 
><http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/root_zone_administrator_proposal-relatedtoiana_functionsste-final.pdf>proposal 
>that outlines a technical plan and testing 
>regime for phasing out the largely clerical role 
>NTIA currently plays in this process. The 
>testing will occur in a parallel environment 
>that will not disrupt the current operation of the root zone management system.
>
>These developments will help ensure that the 
>IANA transition will be done in a manner that 
>preserves the security and stability of the DNS.
>
>Cheers!
>--
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>Seun Ojedeji,
>Federal University Oye-Ekiti
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>
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>
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