<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings,</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">Here is an update on the IANA stewardship proposal as it pertains the numbering community. Community feedback is highly appreciated.</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">The CRISP team has been exploring the best way of informing and engaging the numbering community as it pertains to the IANA Stewardship transition. In that regard, an easy to understand info-graphic has been released for the community. The info-graphic is available here: </span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/Number_Community_Proposal_Overview.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/Number_Community_Proposal_Overview.pdf</a>. The NRO website has also been enhanced to make it more intuitive easy to navigate. Check it here <a href="https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight">https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight</a><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">On 8 July, the Africa Domain Name System Forum 2015 held in Nairobi had a discussion on the IANA Stewardship Transition. </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">REVIEW COMMITTEE CHARTER:</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">NRO developed the Review Committee Charter. The RIRs community was given an opportunity to give feedback on the charter. The CRISP team did not find any inconsistency between the Review Committee Charter and the numbering community proposal.</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">SLA</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">The NRO legal team drafted the SLA that is to be signed between the RIRs and the IANA functions operator. This arrangement will directly reflect and</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">enforce the IANA Numbering Services Operator’s accountability to the Internet Number Community. The community gave its feedback on the SLA. The CRISP team also analysed the SLA for consistency with the numbering community proposal. The SLA is available here </span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/Numbers-SLA-1.0.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/Numbers-SLA-1.0.pdf</a><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">IPR ISSUE - </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://iana.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">IANA.org</a><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"> and IANA trademark</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">The numbering community proposed the IPRs related to the IANA function be held by an independent entity, preferably the IETF Trust. The other two proposals have not contradicted this view but CWG proposal has not expressly stated the position for the names community. ICG has requested CWG to clarify their position on the IPR issue. CWG are still deliberating on it, and have suggested to conduct a stress test on the whole IPR issue. There are 3 trademarks involved: (i) "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority," (ii) "IANA", and (iii) the IANA Logo, which consists of IANA in stylized letters plus Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">The Internal ICG mailing list has this statement allegedly from the ICANN board "The board wishes to reassure the community that in the event any of the IANA functions are transferred away from ICANN, appropriate rights to use the intellectual property associated with the IANA functions will be granted without delay to the new operator or to an entity the operational communities unanimously designate." </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://mm.ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/2015-July/000814.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">http://mm.ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/2015-July/000814.html</a><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">THE TRANSITION AT US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">On June 23, the US House of Representatives passed the DOTCOM Act, a bill that provides for congressional oversight of a U.S. government handoff of oversight of the IANA functions. One takeaway from congressional hearings on the handoff was that both sides agreed that the handoff of the IANA functions from oversight by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration to a multistakeholder model wouldn't be ready by the Sept. 30, 2015 expiration date of the current contract with ICANN. </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://fcw.com/articles/2015/06/23/house-it-votes.aspx" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">http://fcw.com/articles/2015/06/23/house-it-votes.aspx</a><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">ICG PROGRESS</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">-----</span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">The IANA stewardship transition Coordination Group (ICG) has combined the proposals from the numbering, protocol parameters , and names community into one consolidated proposal. The three respective communities are expected to study the document for compatibility and interoperability and comment on any (in)consistencies and realignments with each other, and ensure the proposal meet the NTIA requirements. The proposal is out for public comment from July 31 to September 8, 2015.</span><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#ba0000" face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div>Specific questions about which the ICG is seeking comment are listed below. </div><div><br></div><div>Questions Concerning the Proposal as a Whole</div><div><br></div><div>1. Completeness and clarity: Is the combined proposal complete? Each of the operational community proposals contains aspects to be completed in the future when the proposal is implemented. Is the combined proposal specified in sufficient detail such that it can be evaluated against the NTIA criteria?</div><div>2. Compatibility and interoperability: Do the operational community proposals work together in a single proposal? Do they suggest any incompatible arrangements where compatibility appears to be required? Is the handling of any conflicting overlaps between the functions resolved in a workable manner?</div><div>3. Accountability: Do the operational community proposals together include appropriate and properly supported independent accountability mechanisms for running the IANA functions? Are there any gaps in overall accountability under the single proposal?</div><div>4. Workability: Do the results of any tests or evaluations of workability that were included in the operational community proposals conflict with each other or raise possible concerns when considered in combination?</div><div><br></div><div>Questions Concerning NTIA Criteria</div><div><br></div><div>5. Do you believe the proposal supports and enhances the multistakeholder model? If yes, please explain why. If not, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary.</div><div>6. Do you believe the proposal maintains the security, stability, and resiliency of the DNS? If yes, please explain why. If not, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary.</div><div>7. Do you believe the proposal meets the needs and expectations of the global customers and partners of the IANA services? If yes, please explain why. If not, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary. Please indicate if you are a customer or partner of the IANA services.</div><div>8. Do you believe the proposal maintains the openness of the Internet? If yes, please explain why. If not, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary.</div><div>9. Do you have any concerns that the proposal is replacing NTIA’s role with a government-led or inter-governmental organization solution? If yes, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary. If not, please explain why.</div><div>10. Do you believe that the implementation of the proposal will continue to uphold the NTIA criteria in the future? If yes, please explain why. If not, please explain why and what proposal modifications you believe are necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>Questions Concerning ICG Report and Executive Summary</div><div><br></div><div>11. Do you believe the ICG report and executive summary accurately reflect all necessary aspects of the overall proposal? If not, please explain what modifications you believe are necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>General Questions</div><div><br></div><div>12. Do you have any general comments for the ICG about the proposal?</div><div><br></div><div>The full announcement and more information can be found at the ICG's website: <a href="https://www.ianacg.org/calls-for-input/combined-proposal-public-comment-period/">https://www.ianacg.org/calls-for-input/combined-proposal-public-comment-period/</a></div></span></font></div><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,<br clear="all"></span></font><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya</div><div dir="ltr">For the AFRINIC CRISP TEAM<br><br>"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson<br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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