Regional Public Consultation on the Transition of Stewardship of the IANA Functions

Goal of the Process

The public consultation process seeks to obtain the regional community's input with a view to shaping the multistakeholder debate on the transition of stewardship of the IANA functions in Latin America and the Caribbean, taking into account regional points of view, concerns, suggestions and/or recommendations regarding this transition, specifically as it concerns IP address assignment.

Topics to be Discussed

IANA's role in the oversight of number resource assignment:

A department of ICANN, IANA is responsible for assigned and unassigned IPv4 and IPv6 address space and Autonomous System Numbers (ASN). IANA delegates allocations of IP address blocks to the five Regional Internet Registries for routine assignments, typically performed by downstream operators to end users within each RIR's service region. It also reserves and directly assigns space for special purposes, such as multicast addresses and addresses for private networks and specific applications worldwide. To provide this service, the department coordinates efforts with Regional Internet Registries.

We hope to discuss what the oversight functions for the process described above will look like.

Discussion Methodology

The debate will begin with an initial Virtual Conference chaired by Ernesto Majó, LACNIC's Executive Director, who will explain the debate methodology and present the general goals of the public consultation.

Three (3) members of the LACNIC community will serve as moderators and will be responsible for summing up individual contributions, facilitating participation and discussions on the part of the members of the community, and drafting a first version of a document summarizing these debates (Transition Document).

The first virtual meeting will be held on Friday, 15 August 2014 at 12:00 pm Uruguay time, after which there will be a period of thirty (30) calendar days to submit contributions and comments related to the transition process mentioned above.

Once this thirty-day period is over (15 September), moderators will have seven (7) days to prepare a first, preliminary Transition Document summarizing all contributions and discussions.

Once this first Transition Document is presented (23 September), the community will be able to submit their contributions and comments on said document within a thirty- (30) day period ending on 24 October.

Within the framework of the LACNIC22 meeting to be held on 27-31 October in the city of Santiago, Chile, two (2) sessions will be scheduled for discussing the first preliminary version of the Transition Document. After these two (2) sessions, a second version of the Transition Document will be drafted.

The second version of the first Transition Document will be submitted to LACNIC's Board of Directors for its analysis and consideration. The Board will then submit a final document to the NRO as the official contribution of the LACNIC community to the transition process mentioned above.

Discussion Timeline

What type of contributions is being requested?

The IANA functions stewardship transition process involves requesting the opinion of the communities of the various Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and of LACNIC in particular, specifically on those aspects relating to the stewardship of the IP address assignment function.

Information

All announcements and information relating to this process will be published on the Internet Governance mailing list. Likewise, all information relating to the transition will be published on LACNIC's IANA Transition webpage, along with additional resources (information graphics, videos, interviews) that will help understand the process