Re ICANN Transition is now complete

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: *Steve Crocker* <steve.crocker () board icann org>
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2016
Subject: ICANN Transition is now complete
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Steve Crocker <steve.crocker () board icann org>, David Farber via ip <
ip () listbox com>


Dave,

As Kathy Brown said, today is indeed a remarkable day.  I’ll take a
slightly lower key approach, though.  While today is an absolutely historic
day for ICANN and for the success of the multi-stakeholder approach toward
governance of an important portion of the Internet ecosystem, from the
perspective of the Internet user community, today is a day like any other.
The transition of the stewardship of the IANA process from the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) to multi-stakeholder oversight of ICANN, has had and
will have no impact on the orderly operation of the Internet.  Packets will
continue to flow and new services will continue to be invented.  (And, of
course, the multiple forms of abuse, conflict and controversy over content
and other matters will also continue as before.)

Thousands of man hours and very large numbers of emails, documents and
meetings tallied up between NTIA’s announcement 2-1/2 years ago on 14 March
2014 and the big event last night.  And what was the big event?  The quiet
completion of the contract between NTIA and ICANN which was really
vestigial in nature.  ICANN now has stronger accountability mechanisms, and
the paperwork documenting the interactions with the operational communities
is now more direct and does not involve the U.S. government, but otherwise
it’s business as usual.  Underscoring this point, a significant step toward
rolling the DNSSEC root key also took place this morning: As of 13:34 UTC
on October 1, 2016 the root zone has been signed and published with a
2048-bit ZSK.  This took place in parallel with and essentially independent
of the changes in ICANN governance and U.S. Government stewardship.

Cheers,

Steve Crocker
Chair, ICANN Board of Directors



On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','farber () gmail com');>> wrote:




Begin forwarded message:

*From:* Kathy Brown <brown () isoc org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','brown () isoc org');>>
*Date:* October 1, 2016 at 2:06:06 AM EDT
*To:* Dave Farber <farber () gmail com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','farber () gmail com');>>
*Subject:*
Today is a remarkable day for the Internet!

Today is a remarkable day for the Internet!

ISOC Board Statement
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-
congratulates-global-internet-community-successful-iana-
stewardship-transition



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