A request for proposals (RFP) (http://bit.ly/WJWITF) and “suggested”...
A request for proposals (RFP) (http://bit.ly/WJWITF) and “suggested” Internet Assigned Numbers (IANA) transition timeline (http://bit.ly/1qFoBbw) were released by the IANA Coordination Group (ICG) Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1rIur8L). The RFPs are primarily for the ICANN communities with “direct operational or service relationships with…
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the IANA functions operator,” which are the names, numbers and protocol parameters communities, it said. Proposals are due Jan. 15, it said. The ICG will develop draft responses to the proposals from Jan. 15 to March 13, said the timeline. The draft process will be reviewed from March 13 to May 15, it said. Testing and review of the final IANA transition proposal will take place from March 13 to July 17. The proposal will be submitted to NTIA sometime between July 17 and July 31; NTIA will have until Sept. 30, 2015, to approve the proposal, it said. The tentative timeline said NTIA has not offered any guidance on the time necessary for it to approve the transition. The ICG also released Wednesday an RFP to select a contractor to perform the group’s secretariat function (http://bit.ly/WK0VH4). Submissions for the secretariat are due Monday, it said.