[governance] FBI, DEA, IPv6 & ICANN

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Hi McTIm & John,

Yes, I read the NRO-ICANN MouU when it was issued +or- eight years ago
-- could not find any update of it, except an internal MoU AfriNIC-NRO
to account for the inclusion of the latest RIR.

If you look at the IANA contract (the statement of work), and the
Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), both correctly consider ICANN as the
*only* official counterpart regarding governance of the logical infra.
There is no mention of the derived structures. It is relevant to recall
the footnote to the AoC: "For the purposes of this Affirmation the
Internet's domain name and addressing system (DNS) is defined as: domain
names; Internet protocol addresses and autonomous system numbers;
protocol port and parameter numbers. ICANN coordinates these identifiers
at the overall level, consistent with its mission."

The ARIN response to the NTIA RFC (2011) describes suggestions of NRO
members (strangely, not NRO itself - perhaps because it is not
incorporated?) becoming official parts in any new official arrangement
with NTIA (and even the IETF is bundled in the suggestion), but the fact
is that this has not yet happened -- and in my view would amount to an
effective decentralization of the role currently played exclusively by
ICANN, either as contractor regarding the USG or an international
governance structure. But, I repeat, this has not yet happened.

So, in summary: ICANN is the body to which direct my question which has
motivated this thread. Put in another way: ICANN is the body responsible
for responding to the concerns expressed by the community regarding
LEAs' intrusion into IPv6 deployment. What ICANN does with it (like just
redirect it to another structure under its purview, plays ostrich or
provides a meaningful response to the community and LEAs) is another
issue, of course.

Just to be sure, "deployment" is also part of the ICANN mandate. Witness
the WHOIS protracted process, which is essentially on deploying,
retaining and making available DNS information.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 07/01/2012 02:40 PM, McTim wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> Grande McTim, are you both referring to the NRO-ICANN MoU? Just to make
>> sure we are on the same page.
> 
> 
> yes, that is the one I meant!
> 
> 
> 


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