Re: [ga] The NTIA Public Comment

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all,

  Thanks Danny!

  As a side note, I thought the more important and relevant
parts of this public comment were as follows:

We note that the PSC papers touch on several of the key areas listed
above,
including long term stability, accountability, responsiveness and
stakeholder
participation. However, ensuring continued private sector leadership,
increased
contract compliance and enhanced competition are minimally addressed, if
at all,
in the Transition Action Plan. The Department believes that these issues
require
affirmative and concrete actions on ICANN?s part, as it seeks to
increase the
confidence of the ICANN community in its structure, policy and
decision-making
processes, and, ultimately, its long term stability.

In addition, as the PSC papers refer to a ?root-zone transition
agreement? the
Department believes it is important for its views to be on the record.
First, it is
important to note that the IANA functions contract was not part of the
JPA
mid-term review and the Department views these as two discrete
instruments.
As the community is aware, the IANA functions contract covers the
performance
of a series of currently interdependent technical functions that enable
the continued
efficient operation of the Internet, including processing requests to
change the
authoritative root zone file. Implementation of changes to the
authoritative root
zone file are performed by VeriSign under the terms of a separate
agreement
with the Department.



Danny Younger wrote:

>
> [excerpt]



  "The Department believes strongly that it is important to clarify that
  we are not in discussions with either party to change the respective
  roles of the Department, ICANN or VeriSign regarding the management of
  the authoritative root zone file, nor do we have any plans to
  undertake such discussions. Consistent with public statements made by
  the United States government starting in 2000 and reinforced by the
  2005 U.S. Principles on the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing
  System, the Department, while open to operational efficiency measures
  that address governments? legitimate public policy and sovereignty
  concerns with respect to the management of their ccTLD, has no plans
  to transition management of the authoritative root zone file to ICANN
  as suggested in the PSC documents."



  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/2008/ICANN_080730.html
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