Consultation sessionIANA stewardship transition

Background

• IANA has always operated under USG stewardship– Changes were made over time

• ICANN was established in 1999 to “privatise” the stewardship of IANA– A “multistakeholder” approach, but before that term emerged

• USG maintained a contract with ICANN for the operation of IANA services– But it has been expected that it would eventually relinquish that

control– Various reviews and renewals of this contract have been done– Proposed in March 2014 to end the contract, and transfer

stewardship to the Internet community (with conditions)

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USG relationship

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ICANN

IANA

ContractUSG

Root zone updates

IANA Registries

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“Numbers” “Names”

“ProtocolParameters”

Root zone file

IANA “Operational Communities”

• Numbers– Regional Internet address Registries– Represented by the NRO

• Names– gTLD and ccTLD Registries– Represented by the “CCWG”

• Protocol Parameters– IETF– Represented by the IAB

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RIRs and ICANN

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ASO

ICANN

IANA

RIRRIRRIRRIRRIR

PolicyMaking

PolicyImplementation

Services

PDP

NRO background statements

• Submissions to NTIA– 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011

• Exchange of letters with ICANN– 2007, 2009

• Submissions to ICANN– 2011, 2014

• Montevideo statement– October 2013

• Summary:– https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/rir-

communications

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Current Situation…

• USG announcement, March 2014– Intent to transfer IANA stewardship to the Internet community– Subject to stated conditions and agreement– ICANN to convene a multistakeholder planning process– Community consultation April-May 2014

• IANA Coordination Group (ICG), June 2014– Tasked to produce the transition plan, for implementation when

contract expires in September 2015– RFP issued 9 September, with deadline 15 January 2015

• Responses requested from 3 “Operational Communities”

– All ICG processes are transparent, documented and accessible online: • https://www.icann.org/stewardship

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Draft proposal

RIRs: consultation process

https://www.nro.net/iana-oversight

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DATE PROCESS

8 September 2014 ICG release of RFP

Sep – Nov 2014 NRO regional consultations

December 2014 NRO to consolidate regional consultations

15 January 2015 NRO to submit transition plan to ICG

27 February 2015 ICG to produce draft transition plan

Mar - May 2015 NRO regional consultations about draft plan

29 May 2015 NRO response to draft plan

26 June 2015 ICG to send final proposal to the USG

ICG: consultation process

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• RIRs• Names

• Protocol(communities)

ICG

USgov

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IP addressing community

• Possible issues to consider– ICANN as the ongoing operator of IANA– Operational security of IANA functions– Policy compliance by IANA– IANA oversight mechanisms– ICANN’s accountability to the RIR communities– Agreements between ICANN and the RIRs/NRO

D R A F TDraft proposal – for discussion

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Questions …

• What are the current agreements that RIRs have with ICANN?– ASO MoU, signed between ICANN and NRO in 2004– Exchange of letters between ICANN and NRO in 2007– Renewal of exchange of letters in 2009

• What does an SLA between ICANN and NRO mean?– A contract with ICANN for IANA to provide the IP address allocation

service to the RIRs

• What is an Affirmation of Commitments?– A non-binding expression of understanding between NRO and ICANN

that describes: • the bottom up consensus-based, multi- stakeholder model for Internet governance; • the preservation of good governance practices of transparency and accountability;• acting in the best interests of the Internet community

Next steps

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DATE PROCESS

17 September 2014 Consultation session at APNIC38

Sept - Nov 2014 Mailing list discussion ianaxfer@apnic.net

December 2014 NRO to compile RIR proposals

15 January 2015 NRO to submit initial transition plan to ICG

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