NTIA Tells Congress It's Continuing To Track IANA Transition Planning Work
NTIA “will continue to monitor the work” of the ICANN stakeholder community to complete an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition proposal that fully meets NTIA-established criteria, the agency said its Q4 report on the IANA transition process. The report,…
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released Monday, covers IANA transition planning developments only through Sept. 30 and therefore doesn’t include the results of work at ICANN’s October meeting in Dublin or post-Dublin progress on transition planning. The IANA Transition Coordination Group has finalized almost all elements in its IANA transition proposal but can’t submit its final proposal to the ICANN board until the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) finalizes its own proposal on changes to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms that are critical to the IANA transition (see 1510290058). CCWG-Accountability reached a high-level consensus during the Dublin meeting on several controversial provisions in its proposal, but isn't expected to have a final proposal ready until late January (see 1510220053). NTIA said it continued emphasizing to ICANN stakeholders that the IANA transition plan “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.” Once NTIA receives a final IANA transition plan proposal, the agency will “work within the interagency process to provide a thorough review of the proposal across government agencies. NTIA is also organizing internally to undertake a rigorous review of the community proposal.”