[council] FW: FY 16 Omnibus Appropriations bill extends IANA Transition Freeze, does not contain DOTCOM Act

[Phil Corwin <psc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The bill is now available at 
http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20151214/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR2029-AMNT1final.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__docs.house.gov_billsthisweek_20151214_CPRT-2D114-2DHPRT-2DRU00-2DSAHR2029-2DAMNT1final.pdf&d=CwMFAg&c=QCEPhmH9WJ8wFC_LYDIWIQ&r=gkaPdVJOyk5zzwz1bbgCzw&m=zhJUxWzDj_Okoo-R0C92-0QIbK_pi0IagD_vwj0Q90A&s=Yxr19W0SGwaGy2h9RLJm3yEGDFg5_vDXmwsaxrjuIK4&e=>
 It is expected to be passed by the House and Senate today, as US government 
funding expires at midnight tonight.

Here is the text, at pp. 221-22; it is in Title V of Division B, General 
Provisions Including Rescissions):

SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds made available by 21 this Act may be used to 
relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration, during fiscal year 2016, with respect to Internet 
domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the 
authoritative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 
functions. (b) Nothwithstanding any other law, subsection (a) of this section 
shall not apply in fiscal year 2017.

I'm not quite sure what the effect of Section b is, as this is only an 
appropriations bill for FY 16 and  next year Congress could extend the freeze 
into FY 17. Could the reference to "any other law" contemplate enactment of the 
DOTCOM Act?

The total bill is 2009 pages long. I have just reviewed Division O (Other 
Matters) but the DOTCOM Act is not in it, nor is it in the Department of 
Commerce provisions in Division B (NTIA section starts p. 115; all DOC 
provisions run from pp. 109-132). There is no other part of the legislation in 
which it would likely be placed.

Of related interest, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 has been included in the 
bill, constituting the whole of Division N.

It remains to be seen whether news of the freeze extension will affect the 
timetable for Chartering Organization/community/general public review and 
delivery to the Board of the CCWG-ACCT Proposal.


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