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<p>Maybe of interest to IGCers: ICANN Board Chair Steve Crocker's comments on transition; and a link to Internet Society Prez Kathryn Brown's.</p>
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<p>Cheers!<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Dave Farber <dave@farber.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 1, 2016 4:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ip<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IP] Re ICANN Transition is now complete</font>
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From: <b>Steve Crocker</b> <<a href="mailto:steve.crocker@board.icann.org">steve.crocker@board.icann.org</a>><br>
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2016<br>
Subject: ICANN Transition is now complete<br>
To: Dave Farber <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br>
Cc: Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve.crocker@board.icann.org">steve.crocker@board.icann.org</a>>, David Farber via ip <<a href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip@listbox.com</a>><br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dave,
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<div>As Kathy Brown said, today is indeed a remarkable day. I’ll take a slightly lower key approach, though. While today is an absolutely historic day for ICANN and for the success of the multi-stakeholder approach toward governance of an important portion
of the Internet ecosystem, from the perspective of the Internet user community, today is a day like any other. The transition of the stewardship of the IANA process from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA) to multi-stakeholder oversight of ICANN, has had and will have no impact on the orderly operation of the Internet. Packets will continue to flow and new services will continue to be invented. (And, of course, the multiple forms of abuse, conflict
and controversy over content and other matters will also continue as before.)</div>
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<div>Thousands of man hours and very large numbers of emails, documents and meetings tallied up between NTIA’s announcement 2-1/2 years ago on 14 March 2014 and the big event last night. And what was the big event? The quiet completion of the contract between
NTIA and ICANN which was really vestigial in nature. ICANN now has stronger accountability mechanisms, and the paperwork documenting the interactions with the operational communities is now more direct and does not involve the U.S. government, but otherwise
it’s business as usual. Underscoring this point, a significant step toward rolling the DNSSEC root key also took place this morning: As of 13:34 UTC on October 1, 2016 the root zone has been signed and published with a 2048-bit ZSK. This took place in parallel
with and essentially independent of the changes in ICANN governance and U.S. Government stewardship.</div>
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<div>Steve Crocker</div>
<div>Chair, ICANN Board of Directors</div>
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<div>On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Dave Farber <<a href="" target="_blank">farber@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> Kathy Brown <<a href="" target="_blank">brown@isoc.org</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> October 1, 2016 at 2:06:06 AM EDT<br>
<b>To:</b> Dave Farber <<a href="" target="_blank">farber@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<font><span style="">Today is a remarkable day for the Internet! </span></font></div>
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<div><span style="">Today is a remarkable day for the Internet! </span>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font><span style=""><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-congratulates-global-internet-community-successful-iana-stewardship-transition" target="_blank">https://www.internetsociety.<wbr>org/news/internet-society-<wbr>congratulates-global-internet-<wbr>community-successful-iana-<wbr>stewardship-transition</a><br>
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