[discuss] NTIA role

Thu Mar 27 21:55:54 UTC 2014

Dominique:
The ICANN document you cite is actually inaccurate in a critical way. It presents the GNSO as a separate policy making organization comparable to the RIRs or the IETF. But the GNSO is a part of ICANN; funded by ICANN, supported by its staff, often overridden by GAC and Board. 

A much better diagram is the one developed by InternetNZ and featured in a recent IGP blog post: 
http://www.internetgovernance.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014-03-ICANN-IANA-Role-Structures.pdf 

this shows clearly the distinctions between policy development functions, operational functions, oversight, etc. 

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From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On Behalf Of Dominique Lacroix
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Subject: Re: [discuss] NTIA role

I think it's very important to know and understand the current organization before discussing a transition to a new one.
At the moment, I saw only a simple table and a list of principles in pages 13 & 14 of the very well done document entitled "IANA Accountability presentation" presented at Singapore.
http://singapore49.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-iana-accountability/presentation-iana-accountability-24mar14-en

USG, supposed to be replaced, is only described by 4 occurences of the three letters "USG" in one accountability column.
I suggest we need more.

Please, some responses to the hereunder question?

@+, cheers, Dominique

Le 19/03/14 20:43, Dominique Lacroix a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> "/current role played by NTIA in the coordination of the Internet's 
> domain name system (DNS). NTIA's responsibility includes the 
> procedural role of administering changes to the authoritative root 
> zone file -- the database containing the lists of names and addresses 
> of all top-level domains -- as well as serving as the historic steward 
> of the DNS. NTIA currently contracts with ICANN to carry out the 
> Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions and has a 
> Cooperative Agreement with Verisign under which it performs related root zone management functions./"
> Extract from NTIA statement
>
>
> As some remarked the statement was sometimes followed by fuzzy 
> comments and wonderful sandcastles, is there any online document 
> explaining precisely:
> - the role played by NTIA in general terms,
> - the concrete operations it includes?
>
> The contracts describe precisely Icann and Verisign parts. But what 
> about the other side?
>
> Sorry if it was already posted.
>
> @+, cheers, Dominique
>
>

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