[Community-Discuss] Successful IANA transition

Arnaud AMELINA amelnaud at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 12:03:09 UTC 2016


Good day for Internet and #yestoIANA . +1 @Noah

Le 1 oct. 2016 11:06, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> a écrit :

> On 1 Oct 2016 07:11, "Alan Barrett" <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:
> >
> > Dear AFRINIC community,
> >
> > It’s now a few minutes after midnight in Washington, DC.  The IANA
> contract between NTIA and ICANN has expired.
> >
> > ICANN is now performing the IANA Numbering Services (assigning IP
> addresses and ASNs to RIRs, and some related tasks) in terms of a contract
> between the RIRs and ICANN, instead of in terms of a contract between the
> NTIA and ICANN.  ICANN asked for permission to sub-contract the IANA
> Numbering Services to PTI, and the RIRs consented, so the IANA functions
> will actually be performed by PTI, although ICANN remains responsible.
> >
>
> This is positive progress and indeed great news for the diverse internet
> community at large.
>
> What we can all be proud of here is the entire process that was inclusive
> and indeed made this transition possible.
>
> As we can all imagine now, "oversight" is community oriented and the
> multistakeholder bottom-up process of inclusiveness bred good governance
> and leadership to make this great achivement possible.
>
> We as the AFRNIC community ought to borrow a leaf from this as we continue
> to develop the African Internet.
>
> >
> > Alan Barrett
> >
>
> Noah
>
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