[NA-Discuss] [AFRI-Discuss] [ALAC] Announcement on IANA Stewardship Transition

Barrack Otieno otieno.barrack at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 17:49:19 UTC 2016


Great news indeed Seun, congratulations to all who have made it
possible through hard work and diligence.

Regards

On 10/1/16, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very glad to read this! Especially as it's my country independence
> celebration today as well.
>
> Congratulation to the entire Internet community.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>
> On 1 Oct 2016 8:04 a.m., "Rinalia Abdul Rahim"
> <rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Members of the At-Large Community,
>>
>> *The IANA Stewardship Transition is Complete*
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Rinalia Abdul Rahim
>>
>> ICANN Board Director
>>
>>
>>
>> Links to announcements that have gone out about the IANA Stewardship
>> transition:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/statement-assista
>> nt-secretary-strickling-iana-functions-contract
>>
>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/final-implementation-update
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-09-30-en
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/cheers-to-the-multistakeholder-community
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>


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