ICANN issues call for public input on process to develop IANA stewardship transition plan

[jcurran at arin.net (John Curran)]

NANOGers -

    As you may have heard, the United States National Telecommunications and Information
    Administration (US NTIA) has a contract with ICANN for administration of the Internet
    technical identifiers [e.g. DNS names, IP address spaces, and protocol parameters], and
    recently proposed transitioning stewardship of these tasks over to the Internet technical
    community.

    ICANN is facilitating the development of a plan to accomplish this, and their initial draft of
    a process for plan development has been released and is available for public comment.
    Comments on the proposed process are due by 8 May 2014, and as that is well before
    NANOG 61 in June, I'm drawing attention to this opportunity via the list.  You can find
    more information regarding the proposed process and how to provide feedback attached.

FYI (and thanks!)
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN

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From: ARIN <info at arin.net<mailto:info at arin.net>>
Subject: [arin-announce] ICANN issues Call for Public Input on the IANA Functions Transition
Date: April 9, 2014 at 12:41:18 PM EDT
To: arin-announce at arin.net<mailto:arin-announce at arin.net>

ICANN has issued a call for public input on a newly released Draft
Proposal, based on initial community input, of the principles,
mechanisms, and process to develop a proposal to transition NTIA's
stewardship of the IANA functions.

Details are available at:
http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/transition/draft-proposal-08apr14-en.htm

Feedback can be submitted via the publicly archived mailing list:
ianatransition at icann.org.

We encourage ARIN community members to participate, and call to your
attention that the deadline to contribute is 8 May 2014 (midnight UTC).

Regards,
Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)