IANA oversight transition

The gobal Internet community celebrated the successful conclusion of the IANA stewardship transition, which occurred at midnight on 30 September 2016.

IANA Stewardship Processes Overview

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The RIRs and ICANN: How we cooperate

Why does the Internet number community participate in ICANN? There are many good reasons.

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NRO address at ICANN 57

My address at the opening ceremony of ICANN 57 in Hyderabad.

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Conversation with Izumi Okutani and Paul Wilson about the IANA stewardship transition.

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Historical information

IANA functions contract officially expires

The NTIA has announced that as of 1 October 2016 the the IANA functions contract has expired. This marks the transition
of the coordination and management of the Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector through a global multistakeholder process.

FAQ about the IANA Stewardship Transition

As the date for the transition draws closer, there are still some questions that remain about the nature of the IANA functions, ICANN, and the likely impacts of the transition. The following FAQ helps to answer some of these questions.

NRO statement on IANA IPRs

The NRO has reviewed the three Intellectual Property Rights agreements currently published for comment and finds that they meet the requirements of the numbers
community as expressed in the CRISP Proposal. For more information, please see the following NRO statement.

NTIA indicates that IANA transition is moving forward

In a blog post dated 16 August 2016, the NTIA announced that based on a thorough review of the IANA Implementation Planning Status Report, and barring any significant impediment,
the NTIA intends to allow the IANA functions contract to expire as of 1 October 2016. For more information, please see the following blog post.

Two committees formed by ICANN

ICANN has formed two committees, the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) and the Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC). These are both required for the completion of the IANA Stewardship Transition by the CWG-Stewardship. For more information
about these committees, please see the following ICANN announcement.

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CRISP Team

More information about the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal Team (CRISP Team) is available, including archived information.

Background

In March 2014, the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the Internet community. This transition has been envisaged since ICANN was established, and the NRO has stated its support for this transition on several past occasions.

Part of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function is to allocate Internet number resources (IPv4, IPv6, and AS Numbers) to the Regional Internet Registries, including APNIC. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) currently performs the IANA functions under contract to the NTIA.

ICANN was asked to convene the process to develop a plan for the transition of the US Government stewardship of the IANA functions to the Internet community. The first meeting to discuss this process was in Singapore on 24 March,and a draft proposal on how this process will work will be released by ICANN for public comment on 7 April 2014.

Certain changes to the administration of the IANA functions can have an impact on the APNIC community. APNIC is dependent on IANA functions including IPv4, IPv6, and ASN registry services, and reverse DNS services, and these must continue in a stable,secure, and accountable way.

The APNIC EC is committed to the inclusion of the APNIC community’s views in the ICANN consultation process. APNIC has established an open mailing list for community discussion of the process and desired outcome.
This page will be updated regularly with news and additional resources as the process develops.

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