US Government Announcement about transfer IANA functions stewardship

Fri Mar 14 18:03:15 EET 2014

Hello,

quite big news happened today with the United States Government announcing
its intention to transfer the "stewardship" of IANA functions to global
internet multistakeholder community.

a consultation process to work on the transition framework  will be setup
and definitely the Singapore meeting will be mostly about that.
 a lot of work ahead!

Best,

Rafik

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Olive <david.olive at icann.org>
Date: 2014-03-15 7:04 GMT+09:00
Subject: [Soac-infoalert] US Government Announcement
To: "soac-infoalert at icann.org" <soac-infoalert at icann.org>

 Dear SO/AC SG Leaders:

As you may be  aware,  the United States government announced its intention
to transfer its stewardship of the IANA Functions to the global Internet
multistakeholder community.NTIA release is up
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions

In 1998, the year ICANN was formed, the U.S. government determined that, as
the Internet continued to expand globally, stewardship of that technical
role would one day become the responsibility of all Internet stakeholders
representing, not just governments, but also business, non-commercial
interests, technical and academic communities and independent Internet
users around the world.

in fulfilling its contractual obligations in executing the IANA Functions
since 1998, ICANN has achieved both operational excellence and
organizational maturity. That has prompted the United States government to
designate ICANN to launch a process that allows the community to design a
framework for the IANA Function transition through its bottom-up,
multistakeholder model. That will include opportunities for global
stakeholder input, including from ICANN’s Supporting Organizations and
Advisory Committees and directly-impacted parties.

If you are interested in becoming further involved with this community
consultation process, please see the timeline below. I look forward to
having your support as we move forward on this significant transitional
process.

A Saturday , March 15 webinar is planned for the Community. An
announcement will
be made shortly.

The ICANN Release is here:

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*14 March 2014*

*Administrator of Domain Name System Launches Global Multistakeholder
Accountability Process*

*Press Briefing Scheduled with Board Chair and CEO*

*Los Angeles, California...*The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) today launched a process to transition the role of the
United States Government relating to the Internet’s unique identifiers
system.

ICANN’s announcement comes on the heels of an historic announcement today
by the U.S. Government stating that it is ready to transfer its stewardship
of the important Internet technical functions to the global Internet
community. The U.S. Government’s current responsibilities to be
transitioned include the procedural role of administering changes to the
Domain Name System’s (DNS) to the authoritative root zone file - the
database containing the lists of names and addresses of all top-level
domains – as well as serving as the historic steward of the unique
identifiers registries for Domain names, IP addresses, and protocol
parameters.

In doing so, the U.S. recognized ICANN’s maturation in becoming an
effective multistakeholder organization and requested that ICANN convene
the global community to develop the transition process from of the U.S.
stewardship to a global community consensus-driven mechanism.

“We are inviting governments, the private sector, civil society, and other
Internet organizations from the whole world to join us in developing this
transition process,” said Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President and CEO. ”All
stakeholders deserve a voice in the management and governance of this
global resource as equal partners.”

Independent of the U.S. transition, the roles of the Internet technical
organizations, including ICANN’s role as administrator of the Internet’s
unique identifier system, remain unchanged. The Internet’s Unique
Identifier functions are not apparent to most Internet users, but they play
a critical role in maintaining a single, global, unified and interoperable
Internet.

“Even though ICANN will continue to perform these vital technical
functions, the U.S. has long envisioned the day when stewardship over them
would be transitioned to the global community,” said Dr. Stephen D.
Crocker, ICANN’s Board Chair. “In other words, we have all long known the
destination. Now it is up to our global stakeholder community to determine
the best route to get us there.”

“The global multistakeholder process is defined by inclusion, and it will
take some time to make sure that we obtain all of the necessary inputs,”
said Chehadé. “By the time the current contract with the U.S. Government
expires in September 2015, we will have a defined and clear process for
global multistakeholder stewardship of ICANN’s performance of these
technical functions.”

The first community-wide dialogue about the development of the transitional
process will begin March 23-27 during ICANN’s 49thPublic Meeting, in
Singapore. All global stakeholders are welcome to participate in person or
remotely.

##

To see more about the IANA Functions survey go here:
http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-15jan14-en

*Press Briefing*

*Note:* Because of the historic nature of this announcement, *ICANN Board
Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker* and *ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé* will make
themselves available to answer journalists’ questions during a 1-hour press
briefing.  Details are:

*Date/Time:* *Friday, 14 March 2014 at 11PM UTC / 7PM U.S. EDT*

*Telephone Access Numbers:  **International access numbers may be obtained
here -* www.adigo.com/icann. *Once you have reached the conferencing
center, dial 25594#.*

*Journalist Questions:* *Because there are likely to be many journalists
joining this briefing, upon calling in, your line will be muted. If you
have a question, please hit #3 and tell the conference operator the
following:*

   - *Your name.*
   - *Your news organization.*
   - *The city and country from which you are calling.*
   - *The conference operator will notify the moderator, who will then
   introduce you.*
      - *Your line will be unmuted and you may ask your question.*

*MEDIA CONTACTS:            *

Brad White
ICANN Director of Global Media Affairs
Washington, D.C.
Tel. +1 (202) 570 7118
brad.white at icann.org

James Cole
ICANN Global Media Coordinator
Washington, D.C.
Tel. +1 (202) 570 7139
james.cole at icann.org

Liana Teo
ICANN Head of Communications – Asia/Pacific
Singapore
Tel. +65 6808 6669
liana.teo at icann.org

Alexandra Dans
ICANN Communications Manager – Latin America and the Caribbean
Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel. +598 2604 2222
alexandra.dans at icann.org

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global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type
an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be
unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these
unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't
have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit
public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world
dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It
promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique
identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop
spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its
coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an
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Best regards,

David

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