[governance] The NTIA announcement (re: IANA, DNS root)

[Stephanie Perrin]

Thanks for this.  Indeed, it explains a lot.  Excellent.
Stephanie Perrin

On 2015-08-28 12:19, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> Dear all,
> Please make sure you read this post by Milton (excellent, as always).
>
> While I highly recommend reading the entire post, for the TL;DR crowd:
>
> [snip]
>> The most interesting part of the announcement, however, was not the 
>> extension itself but the way the NTIA has finally started to come to 
>> grips with the role of Verisign and changes in the root zone 
>> management process. Along with the extension announcement, NTIA 
>> published a proposal “Root Zone Administrator Proposal Related to the 
>> IANA Functions Stewardship Transition.” As we noted in a blog post 
>> back in March 2014, it is really the Verisign Cooperative Agreement, 
>> not the IANA functions contract, that gives the US government 
>> authority over all root zone file changes. It is Verisign, not ICANN, 
>> that has operational control of the root zone, so if the Cooperative 
>> Agreement with Verisign doesn’t go away, neither does U.S. control of 
>> the DNS root.
> [/snip]
>
> [snip]
>> To conclude, the NTIA-ICANN-Verisign triumvirate seems inconsistent 
>> with the overall ethos of open, bottom up development of a transition 
>> plan. There are reasons why this is a sticky issue, of course. Still, 
>> the U.S. government and ICANN have to be very careful about how they 
>> handle this. If the “global multi-stakeholder community” invoked by 
>> the original transition announcement goes through an arduous process 
>> to replace the IANA functions contract only to learn that Verisign 
>> and NTIA still have a compact that gives the U.S. control of root 
>> zone changes, their credibility – and the credibility of the entire 
>> process model used to develop the transition – will be shot, and the 
>> ‘transition’ will have done more damage than good to globalizing 
>> Internet governance.
> [/snip]
>
> Regards,
> Pranesh
>
> Mueller, Milton L <milton.mueller at pubpolicy.gatech.edu> [2015-08-20 
> 20:39:28 +0000]:
>> My analysis of the latest NTIA announcement: "What's going on between 
>> NTIA, ICANN and Verisign?"
>> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/18/whats-going-on-between-ntia-icann-and-verisign/ 
>>
>
>
>
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