Session 2: ICANN Accountability and the Transition of IANA Stewardship This session will examine the work that is currently being done to make ICANN more accountable to its stakeholders and to transition the IANA function stewardship away from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) and why these issues matter to everyone. The session will start with a description of the structure and functions performed by ICANN, including the IANA function. The role of ICANN in the Internet multi-stakeholder governance model will be discussed, and the involvement of governments in Internet governance will be addressed. This background will then be used as the launching point for a discussion of how the evolution of ICANN and the transition of the IANA function can affect the openness, security, stability and resiliency of the Internet.

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The IANA Functions and Stewardship
Transition: iANA High-level Overview

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The Internet is a diverse, distributed system...
…but certain resources need to be unique and
coordinated to keep it flourishing.

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IANA: Coordinating Unique Identifiers
Names: Numbers:
Protocol
Parameters:
“404” is an example of an
assigned value for the
HTTP protocol

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Jon Postel: The IANA Until 1998
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USG 1998 Statement of Policy:
“Management of Names and Addresses”
• No longer appropriate for legacy USG research
contracts to be in the middle
• Including for IANA functions
• Domain name policy (including new TLDs) also needs to be globally
developed and administered
• Transition IANA and DNS functions to a stakeholder-
driven, global, non-profit organization.
• Keys: Stability, representation, bottom-up coordination,
• Keeping with the best traditions of the Internet
• Organization now known as “ICANN”
• NTIA to contract IANA functions to the new
organization until transition-ready
• 30 Sept. 2000 original target date for transition
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IANA now
operated by
ICANN
IANA Functions Today
Operational
communities
set policy
IANA
requests

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IANA Transition Process
• March 14, 2014: US NTIA announces its intent to
transition the IANA functions
• Asks ICANN to convene global stakeholders to develop a
proposal to transition the role played by NTIA.
• Proposal developed by the community must adhere to the
following principles:
• Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
• Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;
• Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and
partners of the IANA services;
• Maintain the openness of the Internet;
• Can not replace the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-
governmental organization solution.
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Process Established
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Status Overview
• Operational communities submitted proposals to ICG, which was
consolidated and issued for comment. ICG reviewing comments received.
• CCWG Accountability group Work Stream 1 honing proposal