Day 3 Bob Ochieng - ICANN - Internet 2015

Day 3 Bob Ochieng - ICANN - Internet 2015

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  2015, A definingyear in the history of the Internet: Is Africa following? Bob Ochieng | IAD 2015 | April 16 2015
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  | 2 What isICANN? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder, private sector-led organization that manages Internet resources for the public benefit  ICANN is best known for its role as the technical coordinator of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS)  ICANN's mission overall is to coordinate the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers, and in particular to ensure the stable and secure operation of those unique identifier systems  The set of unique identifier systems coordinated by ICANN are the IANA functions
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  | 3 “Stakeholder” refersbroadly to anyone who has an interest in the Internet Within ICANN, stakeholders include: The multistakeholder community functions on bottom-up consensus building which, by design, is resistant to capture due to the openness, diversity and equal division of authority among participants ICANN’s private sector-led multistakeholder community is directly responsible for the success of the Internet’s DNS What is the multistakeholder community? Large and small businesses Civil society Researchers and academics End usersGovernment s Technical community
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  | 4 The U.S.Government’s Announcement 14 March 2014: U.S. Government announces intent to transition its stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community  Asked ICANN to convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal  The multistakeholder community has set policies implemented by ICANN for more than 15 years Why now? The U.S. Government’s announcement:  Marks the final phase of the privatization of the DNS  Further supports and enhances the multistakeholder model of Internet policy making and governance ICANN was asked to serve as a facilitator, based on its role as the IANA functions administrator and global coordinator for the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS)
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  | 5 What arethe IANA Functions? The IANA functions were developed as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a U.S. government-funded Department of Defense network These functions include:  The coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol parameters  The administration of certain responsibilities associated with Internet DNS Root zone management  The allocation of Internet IP addresses ICANN was created to perform the IANA Functions and has done so pursuant to a no-cost contract with the Department of Commerce for more than 15 years
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  | 6 Transition Requirementsset by NTIA NTIA has stated that the transition proposal must have broad community support and address the following four principles: Support and enhance the multistakeholder model Maintain the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet DNS Meet the needs and expectations of the global customers and partners of the IANA services Maintain the openness of the Internet NTIA also specified that it will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or intergovernmental organization solution.
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  | 7 Two ParallelProcesses The community developed and is following two parallel processes: IANA Stewardship Transition Focused on delivering a proposal to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community Enhancing ICANN Accountability Focused on ensuring that ICANN remains accountable in the absence of its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. Government To drive the processes, the community created multilayered, transparent and diverse working groups to foster discussion and within those groups, has developed working methods and systems for determining consensus
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  | 8 Request forTransition Proposal Structure
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  | 9 Website: https://www.icann.org/ stewardship-accountability ThankYou and Questions Questions? IANA Stewardship Transition https://www.icann.org/stewardship  Latest news and information on the IANA Stewardship Transition and ICG  Community participation information  Resources and archives from ICG meetings Enhancing ICANN Accountability https://community.icann.org/category/accountability  Latest news and information on the Enhancing ICANN Accountability process and CCWG  Announcements and upcoming events twitter.com/icann facebook.com/icannorg