[NA-Discuss] [APAC-Discuss] Announcement on IANA Stewardship Transition

Sivasubramanian M isolatedn at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 09:38:09 UTC 2016


Rinalia,


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?

Sivasubramanian M

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:04 PM, 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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