Good news...indeed !

Best Regards
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Le 9 juin 2016 15:45, "William Drake" <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :

> Hi
>
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 16:32, Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> This morning it was announced by Larry Strickling that the transition and
> accountability proposals developed by the ICANN community have met the
> criteria established by the N.T.I.A.  Simply put, the transition proposal
> has been accepted by the Executive branch of the U.S. government.
>
> The NTIA assessment report, along with relevant charts and data, may be
> located here:
> https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-assessment-report
> .
>
>
> Very welcome news, and well timed for those of us in Brussels at EuroDIG
> debating IG.  ICANN has a session tomorrow on the transition, should be
> rather cheery now.
>
> BTW in light of the critical debate that happened on list when it was
> noted that external experts had been consulted, the below from the fact
> sheet
> https://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2016/fact-sheet-ntias-assessment-iana-stewardship-transition-proposal
>  may be of interest:
>
> *"Finally, NTIA commissioned a panel of corporate governance experts
> including Columbia Law Professor John Coffee [9], Brooklyn Law Professor
> Dana Brakman Reiser [10], and The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
> Harvard University [11] to review the ICANN accountability provisions. The
> expert panel concluded that the accountability recommendations are
> consistent with sound principles of good governance that reflect the unique
> and important mission of ICANN within the Internet ecosystem. In addition,
> the experts concluded that the proposal renders the prospects for takeover
> by a single government, group of governments, or one or more economic
> actors to be extremely remote.”*
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
>
>