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===NCUC Conference on Internet Governance===
 
===NCUC Conference on Internet Governance===
 
The Noncommercial Users Constituency hosted a conference on March 21 that featured an address from [[Larry Strickling]] of the NTIA.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig.html ICANN 49 Archive - NCUC Conference on Internet Governance - the Road to Sao Paolo and Beyond], March 21, 2014</ref> The NCUC conference was focused on issues of Internet governance, particularly in the lead-up to the [[netMundial]] conference<ref>[https://netmundial.br/ Netmundial.br Archive - Netmundial Conference], April 23-24, 2014</ref> the following month. As Steve Crocker noted in his opening remarks, "[t]here's an awful lot of buzz, of course, about the announcement from NTIA about the transition of their role with respect to the IANA process."<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig/transcript-ncuc-ig-1000-21mar14-en.html ICANN 49 Archive - NCUC Morning Transcript], March 21, 2014</ref>  
 
The Noncommercial Users Constituency hosted a conference on March 21 that featured an address from [[Larry Strickling]] of the NTIA.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig.html ICANN 49 Archive - NCUC Conference on Internet Governance - the Road to Sao Paolo and Beyond], March 21, 2014</ref> The NCUC conference was focused on issues of Internet governance, particularly in the lead-up to the [[netMundial]] conference<ref>[https://netmundial.br/ Netmundial.br Archive - Netmundial Conference], April 23-24, 2014</ref> the following month. As Steve Crocker noted in his opening remarks, "[t]here's an awful lot of buzz, of course, about the announcement from NTIA about the transition of their role with respect to the IANA process."<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig/transcript-ncuc-ig-1000-21mar14-en.html ICANN 49 Archive - NCUC Morning Transcript], March 21, 2014</ref>  
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Strickling, in his "keynote assessment" session, was asked to respond to the panels that had come before through the course of the day, and to also provide context and background for the NTIA's decision. He emphasized that the NTIA intended ICANN to lead a collaborative process with all relevant organizations, both within and outside of the ICANN community:
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<blockquote>But on the question of the multistakeholder involvement for all this, we've tried to make it very clear from the outset that this is broader than just ICANN. ICANN is the party with whom we contract for the performance of the IANA functions. ICANN obviously, through these meetings and through its activities, has great experience in terms of running multistakeholder processes and, more importantly, iterative multistakeholder processes where people can work together on an issue over a period of time to reach a consensus decision.
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So we've asked ICANN to convene, but we've made it very clear that this is something that we expect the Internet society, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the RIRs, all of the technical community needs to be participating in this, and we expect that will be reflected in the session on Monday and will be reflected in the process as it's designed and carried out throughout all of this.<ref name="ncuckeynote">[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/fri-ncuc-ig/transcript-ncuc-ig-keynote-21mar14-en.html ICANN 49 Archive - Transcript, NCUC Keynote Assessment], March 21, 2014</ref></blockquote>
    
<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/mon-iana-accountability.html ICANN 49 Archive - IANA Accountability Transition], March 24, 2014</ref> The featured presentations from ICANN board chair [[Steve Crocker]], as well as [[Fadi Chehade]] and others involved in the early coordination efforts for the transition. Initially, it was anticipated that the process would take eighteen months, culminating in the termination of ICANN's contract with NTIA in October 2015<ref name="49preso">[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/mon-iana-accountability/presentation-iana-accountability-24mar14-en.html ICANN 49 Archive - Presentation deck, IANA Accountability Transition], March 24, 2014</ref>
 
<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/mon-iana-accountability.html ICANN 49 Archive - IANA Accountability Transition], March 24, 2014</ref> The featured presentations from ICANN board chair [[Steve Crocker]], as well as [[Fadi Chehade]] and others involved in the early coordination efforts for the transition. Initially, it was anticipated that the process would take eighteen months, culminating in the termination of ICANN's contract with NTIA in October 2015<ref name="49preso">[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule/mon-iana-accountability/presentation-iana-accountability-24mar14-en.html ICANN 49 Archive - Presentation deck, IANA Accountability Transition], March 24, 2014</ref>
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