[discuss] NTIA role

Fri Mar 28 12:56:26 UTC 2014

Thanks a lot, Milton. In the meantime, I read InternetNZ's document,
evoked by S Moonesamy, actually very useful, you're right.
I also read your acute blogs.
Perhaps we could go further in the analysis of the past and current
NTIA's part by asking them to produce a global report?
and/or to open their archives?
As a good steward of public interest promoting the Internet worldwide
for the benefits of consumers, it might not be reticent to free those
informations.

@+, best regards, Dominique

Le 27/03/14 22:55, Milton L Mueller a écrit :
> 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. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On Behalf Of Dominique Lacroix
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:46 AM
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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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