[kictanet] Reminder: Invitation to IANA stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability consultative forum for Kenya

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Dear all,

The Kenyan Internet community will hold a consultative forum at the Nairobi
Safari Club (Lillian Towers), University Way, on Thursday 30th April 2015
from 2PM on the IANA Functions Stewardship Transition from NTIA to the
global multistakeholder community, and Enhancing ICANN Accountability.

Date: Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Time: 2.00PM
Venue: Nairobi Safari Club, University

This email is to invite you to the event, and also solicit comments and
feedback from the Kenya community from those who cannot attend the face to
face meeting on the transition of the IANA functions stewardship role from
the US Government.

Please give feedback using this short survey here, and also share it with
your networks: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXSQ7FG

For those attending the meeting, Please RSVP for logistics purposes.

NB: Parking can be accessed at the Nairobi Safari club parking opposite
Uchumi Supermarket (former Kengeles Grounds).

AGENDA
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1400hrs: IANA transition and ICANN Accountability, - 1ne and a half hours.
1530hrs: African DNS Forum brief, and Leadership opportunities within ICANN
for Africa - 30 minutes

BACKGROUND

On 14th March 2014, the U.S. Government announced its intent to transition
its stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder
community:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions
.

Following this announcement, ICANN, was tasked with facilitating the
development of a global, and representative proposal based on the following
principles:


1.       Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
2.       Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet
DNS;
3.       Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and
partners of the IANA services;
4.       Maintain the openness of the Internet.
5.       The proposal must not replace the NTIA role with a government-led
or an inter-governmental organization solution.


The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) was formed in July
2014 (https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship), and tasked with assembling and
delivering a proposal to NTIA through the ICANN Board. The ICG constituted
three special interest groups representing the Domain Names community (NRO
members), Numbering Resources community (CWG), and the Protocol Parameters
community (IETF),

ICG shall compile the proposals from the three communities into a single
proposal which the ICG shall submit to the board for review, and the board
shall forward the final proposal to NTIA.

The three communities affected by IANA functions, IETF (handling protocol
parameters), Numbering community - CRISP Team  (under the umbrella of NRO),
and Domain Names community (Cross Community Working Group) have released
proposals on how the IANA transition should be handles.

Number resource process and proposal can be found here:
https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team-crisp-team

IETF process and proposal can be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/iana-transition.html

Domain names community process and proposal can be found here:
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocwgdtstwrdshp/CWG+to+Develop+an+IANA+Stewardship+Transition+Proposal+on+Naming+Related+Functions


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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
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