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ICANN Proposal To Transfer Stewardship of IANA to Global Community

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engine

6:36 pm on Aug 4, 2015 (gmt 0)

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According to ICANN, in its latest call for public comment, there's a current proposal to transfer stewardship of of IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) to a Global Multi-stakeholder Community.

Now's you chance for public comment.

The ICG is now asking the public to review the transition proposal, consider specific questions identified below, and submit comments by the deadline of 8 September 2015 at 23:59 UTC. ICANN Proposal To Transfer Stewardship of IANA to Global Community [ianacg.org]
The domain names community proposed to form a new, separate legal entity, Post-Transition IANA (PTI), as an affiliate (subsidiary) of ICANN that would become the IANA functions operator in contract with ICANN. The legal jurisdiction in which ICANN resides is to remain unchanged. The proposal includes the creation of a Customer Standing Committee (CSC) responsible for monitoring the operator’s performance according to the contractual requirements and service level expectations. The proposal establishes a multistakeholder IANA Function Review process (IFR) to conduct reviews of PTI.


Here's a link to the full proposal (PDF) [ianacg.org...]

bill

10:56 pm on Aug 4, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I foresee a lot of resistance from the people who will want to maintain the status quo.

One wonders if this will have any effect on the gouging ICANN is doing for all of the new keyword gTLDs.