The proposal pointed to by the NTIA Blog entry (and by Milton's piece) is an implementation of the recommendation of the CWG and DT-F. But carried to an extreme. It allows the transition to occur  with no code changes and virtually no changes in procedure other than those which will be well tested prior to the transition.

I think that the temporary cloning of the entire RZMS is a rather extreme measure to avoid making coding or operational changes at the moment of transition, but it *IS* following the sound engineering practice of minimizing concurrent changes, and specifically ones that cannot be fully tested prior to the moment of transition. If it had been me, I would have developed the revised code and used the cloned system to test THAT....

As far as I can tell, this proposal has nothing to do with the relationship of the NTIA and Verisign and their cooperative agreement (other than altering the mechanics of what is done under the agreement).

Alan

At 22/08/2015 10:36 PM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:

Hi,

Just to mention that Milton wrote an interesting blog post summary about this proposal:

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/08/18/whats-going-on-between-ntia-icann-and-verisign/

Inline with determining consistency with what DT-F proposed, it will be good to ask the question of whether the proposal shared by Larry will ultimately remove the administrative role NTIA. The current wording in the proposal does not make that clear and I think that would indeed determine if we are really done with stewardship transition or just scratching the surface.

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On 18 Aug 2015 08:31, "Seun Ojedeji" <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com > wrote:

Hello,

Larry has just posted an update on the IANA transition and extension of ICANN contract. An item of the update is the proposal that addresses the administrative(middleman) role of NTIA in the update of the root. Although the CWG did not address this in its proposal due to scope, it highlights some high level principles (expectations) on this. It may be good to check if the ICANN/Verisign proposal meets such expectations.

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http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition

An Update on the IANA Transition

August 17, 2015 by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling

The Internet’s global multistakeholder community has made tremendous progress in its work to develop a proposal to transition the historic stewardship role NTIA has played related to Internet’s domain name system (DNS).

When we announced our intent in March 2014 to complete the privatization of the DNS, we noted that the base period of our contract with ICANN to perform technical functions related to the DNS, known as the IANA functions, expired on September 30, 2015. However, it has become increasingly apparent over the last few months that the community needs time to complete its work, have the plan reviewed by the U.S. Government and then implement it if it is approved.

Accordingly, in May we asked the groups developing the transition documents how long it would take to finish and implement their proposals.  After factoring in time for public comment, U.S. Government evaluation and implementation of the proposals, the community estimated it could take until at least September 2016 to complete this process. In response to their feedback, we informed Congress on Friday that we plan to extend our IANA contract with ICANN for one year to September 30, 2016. Beyond 2016, we have options to extend the contract for up to three additional years if needed.

This one-year extension will provide the community with the time it needs to finish its work. The groups are already far along in planning the IANA transition and are currently taking comments on their IANA transition proposals. As we indicated in a recent Federal Register notice, we encourage all interested stakeholders to engage and weigh in on the proposals.

In preparation for the implementation phase of the IANA stewardship transition, NTIA also asked Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal detailing how best to remove NTIA’s administrative role associated with root zone management, which the groups working on the transition were not asked to address. We asked Verisign and ICANN to submit a proposal detailing how best to do this in a manner that maintains the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS. Under the current root zone management system, Verisign edits and distributes the root zone file after it has received authorization to do so from NTIA. Verisign and ICANN have developed a proposal that outlines a technical plan and testing regime for phasing out the largely clerical role NTIA currently plays in this process. The testing will occur in a parallel environment that will not disrupt the current operation of the root zone management system.

These developments will help ensure that the IANA transition will be done in a manner that preserves the security and stability of the DNS.

Cheers!

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