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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