[Internal-cg] U.S. Government Funding Bill & ANA Transition

Milton L Mueller mueller at syr.edu
Fri Dec 12 05:22:37 UTC 2014


The bill passed. Here's my blog on the topic, seeking a silver lining in this dark cloud

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/12/12/u-s-congress-man-in-the-middle-attack-on-iana-transition/ 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: internal-cg-bounces at icann.org [mailto:internal-cg-
> bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Alissa Cooper
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:45 PM
> To: ICG
> Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] U.S. Government Funding Bill & ANA Transition
> 
> I would suggest that we (and the operational communities) proceed on our
> current course and timeline until we receive information from NTIA or ICANN
> (as the convener of stakeholders) that indicates a need to change course.
> 
> Alissa
> 
> On Dec 11, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I am not directly in touch with Washington people because I am traveling,
> but I fear the situation is a bit worse than Adiel and Jari have described.
> >
> > The funding cutoff is intended to just stop the NTIA from doing the
> transition. This means that assuming NTIA gets a proposal from us more or
> less on time, they cannot do anything with it (unless they take it home and
> work on their own time) until after Sept 30, 2015.
> >
> > Furthermore, since Republicans now control Congress the cutoff could be
> extended again given the right conditions.
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: internal-cg-bounces at icann.org [mailto:internal-cg-
> >> bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Adiel Akplogan
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:52 AM
> >> To: ICG
> >> Subject: [Internal-cg] U.S. Government Funding Bill & ANA Transition
> >>
> >>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20141210_breaking_us_government_funding
> >> _bill_delays_iana_transition/
> >>
> >> Just read this, and wondering if anyone has more insider information
> >> about what it means to this process? My reading is that the
> >> transition process cannot start before 30 September 2015. Which in my
> >> sense is not that alarming as much as it effectively starts then (it
> >> is a transition process). The other part that caught my attention is
> >> the fact that the NTIA is required to inform Congress 45 days prior
> >> to extending the IANA contract or taking any other decision in regard
> >> to it. Which means that the NTIA will have up to the 15th of August
> >> 2015 to evaluate the proposal we will submit, in order to present
> >> their suggested action to Congress. That gives them only 15 formal
> >> days from the time we have planned to submit our proposal. If we
> >> build in the 14 days given to ICANN board to assess and deliver this
> >> to the NTIA ... I don't see how we will achieve the target without
> >> putting emphasis right now on the fact that our published timeline
> >> has to be executed as a waterfalls process where many things has to be
> done in parallel, particularly toward then end.
> >>
> >> - a.
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