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IANA Functions Stewardship Transition (view source)
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The '''IANA Functions Stewardship Transition''' is a process and community discussion regarding the transition of [[IANA]] functions stewardship from its historical contract with the United States government's [[NTIA]] to the global Internet community. The process and discussion is spearheaded by [[ICANN]] and its various stakeholder groups, and was catalyzed by an announcement in March 2014 by NTIA that they would be relinquishing the stewardship to the Internet community.
The '''IANA Functions Stewardship Transition''' was a multistakeholder policy-making process and community discussion regarding the transition of [[IANA]] functions stewardship from the [[NTIA]] to the global Internet community. The process and discussion was spearheaded by [[ICANN]] and its various stakeholder groups, and was catalyzed by an announcement in March 2014 by NTIA that they would be relinquishing the stewardship to the Internet community.<ref>[https://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions NTIA.gov - NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions], March 14, 2014</ref>
==Background==
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was first proposed by [[Jon Postel]] while he was in graduate school at UCLA.<ref name="isoctl">[https://www.internetsociety.org/ianatimeline/ Internet Society - IANA Timeline]</ref> Postel realized that the ever-growing [[ARPANET]] would require a "numbers czar" to manage a canonical list of numbers and addresses to avoid address collisions.<ref name="isoctl" /> He was appointed as the first numbers czar by general agreement. As the global Internet emerged, the "czar" position became formalized as IANA.
ICANN was initially a contractor to the NTIA as a service provider for the IANA functions. With its announcement in 2014, the NTIA confirmed and followed through on the U.S. Government's commitment to an Internet free of governmental (or United Nations) supervision.
==Reactions and Planning at ICANN 49==
The NTIA announcement came a week before the first sessions at [[ICANN 49]] in Singapore.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/en/schedule-full.html ICANN 49 Archive - Full Schedule], March 21-27, 2014</ref> The announcement was a central topic of the meeting.
===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>
<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>
developed a "Draft Proposal
Transition planning was conducted among and across stakeholder groups.
According to an article authored by [[Larry Strickling]] on August 17, 2015, NTIA's Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, the IANA Transition, which was set to begin September 30, 2015 will not be complete until September 30, 2016. The organization believes that while ICANN has made tremendous strides in its transition, it still has more work to accomplish. <ref>[http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition] An Update on the IANA Transition. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>
According to an article authored by [[Larry Strickling]] on August 17, 2015, NTIA's Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, the IANA Transition, which was set to begin September 30, 2015 will not be complete until September 30, 2016. The organization believes that while ICANN has made tremendous strides in its transition, it still has more work to accomplish. <ref>[http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition] An Update on the IANA Transition. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>