[cooperation-wg] Initial text for the Post-Transition Oversight and Accountability Arrangements

Dear colleagues,

As RIPE-selected members of the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship
Proposal (CRISP) team, part of our preparation for this process has
involved drafting some initial text in response to the IANA Coordination
Group’s Request For Proposals (RFP). This text takes what we understand
to be the RIPE community’s position and principles and distills them
into a specific proposal. In preparing this text we have noted the
drafting work of other stakeholders, including the ARIN CRISP team and
the IETF’s ianaplan Working Group.

To be clear, this text will form the basis of our position as we begin
discussions with representatives from the other RIR communities; the
final response to the ICG’s RFP may look somewhat different, depending
on outcome of the full CRISP team's discussions.

We would like to share our draft text on Section 3 of the RFP document,
which covers the details of the proposal itself. We would appreciate any
community feedback on the proposal we have drafted:

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> III.            Proposed Post-Transition Oversight and Accountability
> Arrangements
> 
> This section should describe what changes your community is proposing
> to the arrangements listed in Section II.B in light of the
> transition. If your community is proposing to replace one or more
> existing arrangements with new arrangements, that replacement should
> be explained and all of the elements listed in Section II.B should be
> described for the new arrangements. Your community should provide its
> rationale and justification for the new arrangements.
> 
> If your community’s proposal carries any implications for the
> interface between the IANA functions and existing policy arrangements
> described in Section II.A, those implications should be described
> here.
> 
> If your community is not proposing changes to arrangements listed in
> Section II.B, the rationale and justification for that choice should
> be provided here.

A decision by the NTIA to discontinue its stewardship of the IANA
functions, and therefore its contractual relationship with the IANA
functions operator, would not have any significant impact on the
continuity of Internet number-related IANA services provided by ICANN or
the ongoing community processes for development of policies relating to
those services. However, it would remove a significant element of
oversight from the current system.

The following is a proposal to replace the current NTIA IANA agreement
with a new contract that more directly reflects and enforces the IANA
functions operator's accountability to the open, bottom-up numbers
community.

The Internet numbering community proposes that a new contract be
established between the IANA functions operator and the five Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs). The contract, essentially an IANA Service
Level Agreement, would obligate the IANA functions operator to carry out
those IANA functions relating to the global Internet number pools
according to policies developed by the regional communities via the
global Policy Development Process (gPDP). The agreement would include
specific requirements for performance and reporting, and would specify
consequences should the contractor fail to meet those requirements, the
means for the resolution of disputes between the parties, and the terms
for renewal or termination of the contract. The agreement should also
require the IANA operator to appropriately coordinate with any other
operator of IANA-related registry services.

As noted in numerous NRO communications over the past decade, the RIRs
have been very satisfied with the performance of ICANN in the role of
IANA functions operator. Taking this into account, and considering the
strong desires expressed in the five RIR communities' IANA stewardship
discussions for stability and a minimum of operational change, the
Internet numbering community believes that ICANN should remain in the
role of IANA functions operator for at least the initial term of the new
contract.

	- The RIRs will coordinate with their communities and the ICANN Board
to develop an IANA Service Level Agreement by June 2015.

The processes for developing, agreeing and implementing policy relating
to management of the global Internet number resource pools would require
no change to accommodate this new arrangement. The text of the ICANN ASO
MoU
(https://aso.icann.org/documents/memorandums-of-understanding/memorandum-of-understanding/)
meets the current and anticipated requirements for a community-driven
global policy development process.

As an additional measure of security and stability, the RIRs have
documented their individual accountability and governance mechanisms,
and asked the community-based Number Resource Organization Number
Council (NRO NC) to undertake a review of these mechanisms and make
recommendations for improvements that may be warranted given the nature
of the stewardship transition for Internet number resources.

	- The RIRs will coordinate with coordinate with the NRO NC to identify
any areas covered by the RIR Governance Matrix that require further
attention and address those issues by June 2015.

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We will share further information on the timing of the upcoming CRISP
team teleconference shortly.

Best regards,

Andrei Robachevsky
on behalf of the RIPE CRISP team


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