[NCUC-DISCUSS] [Important] Stewardship of IANA Functions Transitions to Global Internet Community as Contract with U.S. Government Ends - ICANN

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi everyone,

We are living an important in the IANA transition with the expiration
of the contract and against the attempts to delay that process. You
will find below several statements and posts from ICANN.
I also am sharing the statement sent by NCUC executive committee to
ICANN board asking to implement the needed changes
http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-statement-on-transition-and-icann-reforms.

Best Regards,

Rafik Dammak

NCUC chair

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https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-10-01-en

Stewardship of IANA Functions Transitions to Global Internet Community
as Contract with U.S. Government Ends

Today, 1 October 2016, the contract between the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States
Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA), to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA) functions, has officially
expired<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/statement-assistant-secretary-strickling-iana-functions-contract>.
This historic moment marks the transition of the coordination and
management of the Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector,
a process that has been committed to and underway since 1998.

“This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, yet it was the tireless
work of the global Internet community, which drafted the final
proposal, that made this a reality,” said ICANN Board Chair Stephen D.
Crocker. “This community validated the multistakeholder model of
Internet governance. It has shown that a governance model defined by
the inclusion of all voices, including business, academics, technical
experts, civil society, governments and many others is the best way to
assure that the Internet of tomorrow remains as free, open and
accessible as the Internet of today.”

Internet users will see no change or difference in their experience
online as a result of the stewardship transition.

In managing the coordination of the Internet’s unique identifiers,
ICANN plays a small but significant role in the Internet’s ecosystem.
For more than 15 years, ICANN has worked in concert with other
technical bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, the
Regional Internet Registries, top-level domain registries and
registrars, and many others.

The final chapter of the privatization process began in 2014, when
NTIA asked ICANN to convene the global multistakeholder community,
which is made up of private-sector representatives, technical experts,
academics, civil society, governments and individual Internet end
users, to come together and formulate proposals to both replace NTIA’s
historic stewardship role and enhance ICANN’s accountability
mechanisms.

The package of proposals developed by the global community met the
strict criteria<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-meets-criteria-complete-privatization>
established by NTIA in its March 2014 announcement. Since their
submission to NTIA, ICANN and its various stakeholder groups have
worked tirelessly to ensure that all the necessary implementation
tasks<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2016-08-12-en> have
been completed, so the IANA functions contract could expire on 30
September 2016.

The proposals reinforce ICANN’s existing multistakeholder model and
are also aimed at enhancing ICANN’s accountability. The improvements
include empowering the global Internet community to have direct
recourse if they disagree with decisions made by ICANN the
organization or the Board.

The IANA stewardship transition is a testament to the tireless work of
the global community, and a validation of the multistakeholder model
that frames that community.

To learn more about the IANA Stewardship Transition, go here:
https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability

Akram Atallah’s blog: “Final Implementation
Update<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/final-implementation-update>”

Stephen D. Crocker’s blog: “Cheers to the Multistakeholder
Community<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/cheers-to-the-multistakeholder-community>”