Open Technology Institute Releases First in Series of IANA Transition Reports to Educate Policymakers, Public
New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) released the first in a planned series of papers Thursday on issues and challenges for policymakers and the public in ICANN’s planned spinoff of its Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. The paper released…
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Thursday provides basic details on those issues, including ICANN’s history of controlling the IANA functions, NTIA’s oversight role and related domain name system (DNS) policy issues that need to be addressed as work on the transition process continues. Future papers will expand on issues identified in the initial report, OTI said. “We support the U.S. government’s decision” to complete the IANA transition, said OTI Senior Fellow David Post, one of the paper’s authors, in a statement. “But before that happens, key challenges must be addressed to ensure that the DNS continues to run smoothly and that ICANN stays accountable to its many stakeholders and remains focused on technical coordination rather than broader Internet policy issues involving cybersecurity, copyright, online privacy, and the like.” The OTI papers are meant to “shed some light on the complexity of the process and help inform the public discussion that’s happening right now, because getting this transition right is very important -- especially if the United States wants to maintain its credibility in the broader global Internet governance ecosystem,” said OTI Senior Policy Analyst Danielle Kehl, the report’s other author, in a statement.