<p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just to mention that Milton wrote an interesting blog post summary about this proposal:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="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/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards<br>
Sent from my Asus Zenfone2<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 Aug 2015 08:31, "Seun Ojedeji" <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,<br><br></div>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. <br><br>Regards<br><br><br><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition" target="_blank">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition</a><br><h1><div><div>An Update on the IANA Transition</div></div></h1>
<span>August 17, 2015 by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling</span><br><p>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).</p>
<p>When we <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions" target="_blank">announced</a>
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/fr_iana_transition_comment_notice_08102015.pdf" target="_blank">Federal Register notice</a>, we encourage all interested stakeholders to engage and weigh in on the proposals.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/root_zone_administrator_proposal-relatedtoiana_functionsste-final.pdf" target="_blank">proposal</a>
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.</p>
<p>These developments will help ensure that the IANA transition will be
done in a manner that preserves the security and stability of the DNS.</p><p>Cheers!<br></p><div><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><font color="#888888"><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;font-family:garamond,serif">
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