<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This is very welcome. It looks like the intention is for ICANN as convenor not necessarily inheritor if such a role as NTIA has provided will be required. </div><div><br></div><div>One challenge will be how ICANN promotes its own views institutionally whilst also being the convenor of all stakeholders. </div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Christian de Larrinaga<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:34, Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve@shinkuro.com">steve@shinkuro.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div>Joly, et al,</div><div><br></div><div>The exact words from NTIA are the following:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">… the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) today announces its intent to
transition key Internet domain name functions to the global
multistakeholder community. As the first step, NTIA is asking the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to convene
global stakeholders to develop a proposal to transition the current role
played by NTIA in the coordination of the Internet’s domain name system
(DNS). [1]</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I understand that many will read to suggest NTIA is opening the door for the creation of a new entity or to move the IANA function away from ICANN, but I think they are instead focused on how to replace <u>their</u> role, not ICANN’s.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 15, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Glenn McKnight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Today ICANN had a announcement and phone in opportunity to explain the decision to not renew the IANA contract with ICANN and Evan Leibovitch asked two questions to Fadi and Steve. </blockquote>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br>Audio of this is available at <a href="http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-ntia-20140315-en.mp3">http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-ntia-20140315-en.mp3</a> , transcript to follow. I've not listened yet but I understand that both Olivier and Evan asked good questions.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't know that the NTIA's decided not to renew the contract with ICANN. My understanding is that they have invited a multistakeholder proposal for a new entity to take over responsibility for the IANA functions, before the current contract expires. That they find that proposal acceptable is not assured. Whether the ICANN contract. will be renewed - by NTIA or the new entity, if formed in time - is yet to be determined.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Please correct me if I'm wrong.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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