[Chapter-delegates] NTIA-ICANN Announcement ends JPA, reflects key ISOC points

[Franck Martin]

Great stuff.

I'm curious to see as a practical example, how ICANN will handle the recent .hn saga, or they leave it as an IANA/US Gov issue?

Finally, I'm curious to see how the whois will be improved (I think the process of understanding misuse of whois is just starting), and if PIR has plans to improve their whois data.

Franck Martin 
http://www.avonsys.com/ 
twitter: FranckMartin 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Graham" <graham at isoc.org>
To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Cc: "ISOC Chapter Support" <chapter-support at isoc.org>
Sent: Thursday, 1 October, 2009 3:30:30 AM GMT +12:00 Fiji
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] NTIA-ICANN Announcement ends JPA, reflects key ISOC points

All,

Today, the NTIA and ICANN  jointly announced that they have entered  
into a new kind of relationship, and that the Joint Project Agreement  
would be coming to an end.  As you know, the Internet Society and many  
of its members have been consistent contributors to and supporters of  
the ICANN processes.  We also consulted with all members before  
preparing the ISOC response to the United States Government's Notice  
of Inquiry earlier this year.  Once again, many thanks to those of you  
who responded.

In our submission to the NTIA's public input to the NTIA's "Assessment  
of the Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the  
Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System," ISOC strongly advocated  
a renewal of ICANN's commitment to acting as a steward of the shared  
global resource that is the domain name system.  We specifically  
recommended that ICANN needs to emphasize transparency, stakeholder  
participation, inclusive dialog, evidence-based decision making  
processes, complaint/response/dispute resolution and accountability.  
The announcement today by NTIA and ICANN closely reflects many points  
made in the Internet Society's response.