'Lot Riding On' Successful End to IANA Transition Process, Strickling Says
The outcome of ICANN's ongoing planning for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition will be a top Internet governance issue of 2016, said NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling during the State of the Net conference Monday. ICANN has said it's…
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nearly ready to submit the IANA transition plan to NTIA for final approval, but ongoing disputes over an associated proposal for changing ICANN's accountability mechanisms continue to delay that process. “We're basically waiting on [the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability)] to finish” its proposal before final submission can occur because the CCWG-Accountability proposal affects aspects of the IANA transition plan, said IANA Transition Coordination Group Chairwoman Alissa Cooper, a Cisco engineer. There's “a lot riding on” a successful conclusion to the IANA transition process, because it's one of the “largest multistakeholder Internet governance processes” undertaken, Strickling said. A successful IANA transition “will serve as a powerful example” of what multistakeholder processes can accomplish, he said.