Strickling To Speak Tuesday on IANA Transition After Release of Revised Spinoff Governance Proposal

NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling is to speak at the Internet2 Global Summit Tuesday about the Internet assigned names numbers authority (IANA) process and the continued importance of global Internet governance to the research community, Internet2 said. Strickling’s speech comes days after ICANN’s IANA stewardship cross-community working group (CWG-Stewardship) released its revised draft transition plan proposal for comment. The revised draft addresses several of the criticisms that stakeholders leveled against the CWG-Stewardship’s original draft proposal, which includes claims that the original plan was too bureaucratic (see 1412240048). Strickling was among those who criticized the original CWG-Stewardship proposal (see 1501270042). The revised plan recommends that ICANN create a specific subsidiary, called the Post-Transition IANA, to handle the IANA transition. An ICANN-selected board would govern PTI, while the Customer Standing Committee and the IANA Function Review Team (IFRT) would handle current federal oversight functions, CWG-Stewardship said in the revised plan proposal. The IFRT could propose separating PTI from ICANN entirely under extraordinary circumstances, the revised proposal said. The contents of ICANN’s current IANA contract with the federal government, affirmed in 2009, would become a part of the bylaws for ICANN and IFRT, the revised proposal said. Comments on the revised CWG-Stewardship proposal are due May 20. A separate CWG is anticipated to release a draft proposal on ICANN accountability soon.