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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Original link: <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-29-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-29-en</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background:white'><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>ICANN<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Signs Service Level Agreement with Regional Internet Registries and Finalizes 2016 Supplemental Agreement with Internet Engineering Task Force<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Today the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>IANA<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Numbering Services at ICANN56 in Helsinki, Finland. This agreement will become effective on the date of the transition. To read more and review this agreement, which documents the planned arrangements for provision of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>IANA numbering services after the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>IANA<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Stewardship Transition, please visit<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.nro.net/news/icann-and-regional-internet-registries-sign-sla-for-the-iana-numbering-services"><span style='color:#0098D5'>here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>ICANN<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>also finalized a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental Agreement with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the performance of the protocol parameters functions. This is one of the requirements of the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>IANA<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Stewardship Transition package of proposals. This agreement will become effective on the date of the transition. Review the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>MoU<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Supplemental Agreement<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/59-2016-icann-ietf-mou-supplemental-agreement-v-1-0"><span style='color:#0098D5'>here</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[PDF, 147 KB].</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>