[CWG-Stewardship] A Progress Update: Ensuring the Security, Stability and Resiliency of Root Zone Maintenance

[Seun Ojedeji]

Thanks for sharing this Grace. A general observation is that It seem ICANN
will now have a financial obligation to the maintainer post-transition.
Considering that the maintainer role has been performed at "no cost", I
wonder whether this is not a major change post transition. I also wonder
why ICANN as an organisation is not considering assuming the role since
there is now a financial commitment anyway.

Regards

Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos
On 18 Mar 2016 20:23, "Grace Abuhamad" <grace.abuhamad at icann.org> wrote:

> Original link:
> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance
> .
>
>
> A Progress Update: Ensuring the Security, Stability and Resiliency of Root
> Zone Maintenance
>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance#>
>
> On 10 March 2016, a plan to transition the IANA stewardship from the U.S.
> government's oversight to a global multistakeholder community was submitted
> to NTIA for consideration. Witnessing the extraordinary efforts of the
> multistakeholder community to develop these proposals has been impressive
> and humbling.
>
> While the community has been working hard to finalize the proposals
> included in the plan, my team and I have been diligently preparing for the
> implementation phase of the anticipated IANA stewardship transition. One
> of the tasks that must be completed is for ICANN and Verisign to enter
> into a Root ZoneMaintainer Agreement (RZMA). Another is to extend the
> .com Registry Agreement to run for the same term as the RZMA, which ICANN and
> Verisign believe enhances the security, stability and resiliency of the
> root zone infrastructure. Today, I want to provide you with some background
> information on the RZMA and an update on our progress.
>
> As noted in the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG)
> proposal, the complete and finalized transition requires revising the
> relationship between the current IANA Functions Operator (ICANN), the
> current Root Zone Maintainer (Verisign) and the current Root Zone Administrator
> (NTIA). Specifically, the role of NTIA will be eliminated and a written
> agreement between ICANN and Verisign establishing each party's role will
> need to be in place once that happens.
>
> On 4 March 2015, NTIA officially requested that ICANN and Verisign work
> together to develop a proposal on how best to transition NTIA's
> administrative role associated with root zone management. Of paramount
> importance is accomplishing this in a manner that maintains the security,
> stability and resiliency of the root zone management process. ICANN and
> Verisign are close to having terms and conditions that accomplish this
> essential objective and that clearly define the respective roles and
> responsibilities of each party.
>
> In general, we have already agreed that Verisign will be compensated for
> performance of the maintainer function and will have obligations to meet
> certain service-level agreements (SLAs) that the parties may adjust to
> address recommendations of the Customer Standing Committee pursuant to a
> change control process anticipated in the agreement. This change process is
> being defined to allow for the community to introduce through ICANN improvements
> to the Root Zone Management System as well. While the term of the RZMA is
> intended to promote the security, stability and resiliency of root zone
> maintenance operations by having Verisign continue in its role, the
> agreement also provides a capability for the community, through a
> consensus-based community-driven process, to cause ICANN to transition
> the function to another service provider after an agreed-upon number of
> years.
>
> There are some remaining issues that need to be resolved before we
> finalize a draft of the agreement. It's difficult to enumerate these issues
> because discussions are ongoing and the status of the issues changes
> frequently. However, we are making good progress and expect to complete a
> draft soon.
>
> Once ICANN and Verisign have completed the draft agreement, it will be
> posted for a 30-day community review period. This is in accordance with
> ICANN's transparency as well as in keeping with the recommendation in the
> ICG proposal to make the draft proposal available for public review prior
> to execution.
>
> There is still work to do but we are making good progress. I encourage you
> to explore the web pages listed below for more information and to keep
> abreast of the latest developments.
>
>    - Root Zone Administrator Proposal Related to the IANA Functions
>    Stewardship Transition
>    <https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/root_zone_administrator_proposal-relatedtoiana_functionsste-final.pdf> [PDF,
>    247 KB]
>    - IANA Stewardship Transition Implementation
>    <https://www.icann.org/stewardship-implementation>
>    - IANA Stewardship and Accountability
>    <https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability>
>
>
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