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

Sivasubramanian M isolatedn at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 13:53:38 UTC 2016


Dear Dr Govind,

What I meant is a ceremonial announcement from NTIA on Transition.
Hopefully the announcement would be followed by a transition ceremony !

On Oct 1, 2016 8:16 PM, "Dr. Govind" <govind.gac at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Dr Govind
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
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