[At-Large] Announcement: ICANN Makes Presentation to JPA Midterm Review Public Meeting

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb08.htm ICANN
Makes Presentation to Midterm Review Public Meeting Now is the
time to start planning transition 28 February 2008 WASHINGTON,
DC: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers made
its presentation on the Midterm Review of the Joint Project
Agreement (JPA) between itself and the United States Department
of Commerce at a public meeting held today in Washington, DC. "I
think that after almost 10 years of experience of this model the
question before us is very stark: Are we going to complete the
White Paper’s vision of private sector management of the
Internet’s system of unique identifiers? I believe the
overwhelming view from virtually all participants is that
transition is the goal and the interest is in settling how we get
there," ICANN Chair Peter Dengate Thrush said. Today’s public
meeting was held to discuss the written submissions that the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration had
received during its recently concluded public comment period on
the JPA between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN. The
JPA was signed in September 2006, is due to conclude in September
2009 and was scheduled for a Midterm Review at this point. In his
presentation the Chairman said he would ask the President’s
Strategy Committee to outline a plan for developing this
transition framework. They will meet in April and make a first
presentation involving the community, starting a process for
further engagement with the community at the ICANN meeting in
Paris in June. The process will be guided by the input ICANN has
received so far from its own consultations, and the analysis of
the comments surveyed in this Review. "The U.S. government has
been and remains a staunch advocate for an Internet that is based
on values of freedom, enterprise and crucially coordination — not
control. Now, there are final steps to be taken to make this a
reality and to celebrate an enlightened U.S. policy under two
administrations to transition to private sector management of the
domain name system. "We all now need to work together over the 18
months remaining in the JPA to finalize the model for the long
term," Dengate Thrush said. The complete statement to the public
meeting is available on the ICANN website at
http://www.icann.org/jpa/presentation-to-jpa-midterm-review-publi
c-meeting-28feb08.pdf [PDF, 201K].
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Regards,
 
Nick Ashton-Hart
Director, At-Large
ICANN
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