ICG IANA Transition Proposal ‘Workable’ but Complex, ISOC Says
The IANA Coordination Group’s (ICG) proposal to transition stewardship of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions from the U.S. government to the global multistakeholder community meets the principles set forth by NTIA and presents a workable proposal for the continued stability…
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of the IANA functions, the Internet Society (ISOC) commented Thursday to ICG. The comment deadline is Tuesday. The complexity of the proposal, its implementation and its dependency on the ICANN accountability proposal is of concern to the ISOC, CEO Kathryn Brown wrote in a blog post Thursday. ISOC welcomes NTIA’s decision to extend the transition until next September to “allow the global Internet community to continue its hard work on addressing these outstanding issues,” Brown said. “We encourage the communities to continue deliberating how these implementation details can be addressed in a timely manner and how, in addressing them, all the communities can remain equally involved.”