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

[Alan Greenberg]

It is proposing a lot more than high-level 
principles. It is a roadmap for replacement of 
the NTIA-Verisign cooperative agreement.

Alan

At 18/08/2015 03:31 AM, Seun Ojedeji 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!
>--
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Seun Ojedeji,
>Federal University Oye-Ekiti
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>
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>
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