On behalf of the Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) Accountability, the co-chairs Thomas Rickert (GNSO), León Sanchez Ambia (ALAC) and Mathieu Weill (ccNSO) are pleased to announce that the CCWG has prepared a set of high level statements that might be valuable to all groups or individuals working on proposals as part of the NTIA …
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) announced its transition proposal Assembly and Finalization Process – https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finalization-24dec14-en.pdf [PDF, 89 KB]. This document explains the process that the ICG will follow for assembly and finalization of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal. It includes information about the ICANN Board’s role in conveying the final transition proposal to …
Sophia Bekele the Founder of DCA Trust has given her views the ICANN-IANA transition for 2015, calling for a new body to work with NTIA. “Therefore, I wish to call for the establishment of such a new body that will work in cooperation with the NTIA to exercise supervisory responsibilities over ICANN” Read the OpEd …
Karl Auerbach has commented on the Joint Statement from Chairmen of ISOC and ICANN below The chairmen of ICANN and ISOC put out a joint statement. What was not mentioned is that ISOC gets its funding largely via domain name registration fees in the .org top level domain. In other words, ISOC’s funding depends on …
By Philip S. Corwin on CircleID: On the evening of Tuesday, September 9th, Congressional leaders unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through the end of September 2015. One provision of the omnibus bill would delay the IANA transition until after the September 30, 2015 expiration of …
The WallStreetJournal.com, according to a letter in the Journal today , Commerce Department official Lawrence Strickling dismissed the importance of U.S. oversight of ICANN and said that there is no firm deadline for the U.S. to give up oversight of ICANN. “In March the U.S. announced it would not renew its contract with ICANN next …
Remarks by Assistant Secretary Strickling at the PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute | NTIA: Excerpts from remarks by Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the PLI/FCBA Telecommunications Policy & Regulation Institute, Washington, DC, December 4, 2014 (go to the link above for complete copy): “… we [NTIA] play a central …
The Obama administration should concede that no alternative to U.S. oversight will be in place by next September. In a letter to the editor in the Journal on Monday, an Obama administration official complains about the “many salvos” this column has launched against the plan to give up U.S. protection of the Internet in September …
ICANN Cross Community Working Group (CWG) has published the draft transition proposal for public comment. The comment period opened on 1 December 2014. Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the …
The 2015 target to cut free ICANN from the NTIA ‘Oversight’ may be too ambitious atleast from the latest scrutiny from several respected bodies. ICANN is slowly but surely facing an uphill task proving that it is ready to go in alone in managing the world’s only internet domain names root. The NTIA announced in …