NTIA Tells Congress Its Review of ICANN's IANA Transition Plan May Focus on Results of Stress Tests
NTIA plans to continue to “closely monitor” the ICANN community’s work on an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition plan and a related set of proposed changes to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms, the federal agency said Friday in its Q3 report…
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to Congress. NTIA is required under the FY 2015 Department of Commerce budget to report on the IANA transition process on a quarterly basis. NTIA said it wants to ensure the IANA transition plan “fully meets” the criteria that the agency established, including “that the proposal must support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, i.e., it should be developed by the multistakeholder community and have broad community support. We will not accept a transition proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or intergovernmental organization solution.” NTIA had said it intends to extend its current contract with ICANN to administer the IANA functions until Sept. 30, 2016, to give ICANN additional time to plan the IANA transition and implement requisite accountability changes (see 1508180068). The specifics of NTIA’s planned review of ICANN’s IANA transition plan “will depend in part on the thoroughness of the processes the community uses to develop and review its proposal,” NTIA said. “For example, if the community ‘stress tests’ any new process or structures included in the proposal prior to submission, well-documented results may facilitate NTIA’s review.”