Hi, again: Comes of doing things when you're not awake yet.
I misspelled my own e-mail address. It should be [email protected] Sorry about that . . . Gordon On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 12:42 -0400, Gordon Chillcott wrote: > Hi, all: > > You probably know that in March 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce's > National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) > announced its intent to “transition its stewardship role of the IANA > Functions and related management”. This meant that NTIA will no longer > oversee a contract with ICANN to manage IANA. ICANN will have to do it > itself. > > To get this started, NTIA called on ICANN to “coordinate” the drafting > of a proposal to transition this stewardship role to the broader global > multi-stakeholder community. This meant drafting of a proposal of its > own and inviting other proposals from IETF and the various numbers > registries (ARIN, RIPE and the others) and then coordinating them all > into one proposal to present to NTIA. > > ICANN now has a (second) draft of its proposal “ready for comment” (this > request for public comment is fairly standard for ICANN policy > documents). > > This one is important enough that we're asking you to look it over and > accept ICANN's invitation to comment. Comments are going to be > accepted until May 20 – that's short, I know, but there it is. > > Now, this is a pretty complex document – it's a kind of complex matter, > involving contract law (in California, where ICANN is registered), the > concerns of a lot of stakeholders outside the US, and the need for ICANN > to be seen to be accountable. > > So, here it is. Send your comments to me at [email protected] and I'll > compile them into a group comment for ICANN. > > https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cwg-stewardship-draft-proposal-without-annexes-22apr15-en.pdf > > I'm not sure you want to tackle the proposal with annexes. It's > painful. > > Enjoy > > Gordon > > Community Affairs Group > GTALUG > > > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
