<p dir="ltr">Dear Dr Govind,<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">What I meant is a ceremonial announcement from NTIA on Transition. Hopefully the announcement would be followed by a transition ceremony !</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 1, 2016 8:16 PM, "Dr. Govind" <<a href="mailto:govind.gac@gmail.com">govind.gac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Is expiry of contract between NTIA and ICANN , doesn't automatically imply that ICANN would be the entity dealing with all kinds of activities including IANA work.<div><br></div><div>Dr Govind</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Rinalia,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Larry Strickling blog post as well as the ICANN blog post (Cheers to Community) talks about the expiry of the contract, would there be a more formal "Transition" announcement from NTIA or ICANN?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Sivasubramanian M</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_4361243991441636088h5">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_4361243991441636088h5">Dear Members of the At-Large Community,<br><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div>
<br><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>The IANA Stewardship Transition is Complete</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Today, on 1 October, the IANA functions contract between ICANN and NTIA expired. The expiration of the contract between ICANN and the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, will have no impact on end users of the Internet; they will not see any changes or difference in their use of the Internet. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:small">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The ICANN Community, Board and staff as well as the larger Internet community took on this challenge, over two and a half years, and succeeded. Developing the transition proposals was unprecedented, and reflected the multistakeholder community at work. Because of the hard work by everyone, the ICANN organization is now a more accountable and transparent body. There will be some small changes to how ICANN operates, but its underlying goal is the same – to support the Community and ensure the continued stable and secure operation of the DNS.</span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It has been a privilege to be a part of this process where the multistakeholder model of Internet Governance demonstrated its power. I wanted to take a moment to thank and congratulate all of you for your hard work over the past two and a half years to get us to where we are today.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Best regards,</span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span>Rinalia Abdul Rahim</span></font></p><p><font size="2"><span>ICANN Board Director</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">Links to announcements that have gone out about the IANA Stewardship transition:<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/statement-assistant-secretary-strickling-iana-functions-contract" target="_blank">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-<wbr>release/2016/statement-assista<wbr>nt-secretary-strickling-iana-f<wbr>unctions-contract</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/final-implementation-update" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/blo<wbr>g/final-implementation-update</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-09-30-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/ann<wbr>ouncement-2016-09-30-en</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/cheers-to-the-multistakeholder-community" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/blo<wbr>g/cheers-to-the-multistakehold<wbr>er-community</a>
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