[Internal-cg] Suggested New 02

[Patrik Fältström]

What about this as new 02:

HISTORY / BACKGROUND

02 The Internet’s growth has been due in large part to its shared global ownership, use of open standards, and freely accessible processes for technology and policy development.  The smooth operation of the Internet depends upon a global, collaborative and community-driven approach to managing key shared resources.

Some of the most important shared resources (also called registries) are Internet Protocol addresses, Domain Names/DNS Root Zone Management, and Protocol Parameters. The IANA Functions Operator (IFO) performs a set of administrative coordinating services for these and others. Each such resource is operated under a policy defined by a specific community. These are referred to as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Function. 

IANA started as a service to the community provided by one individual: Dr Jonathan B. Postel.  Later the service was housed in ISI in Marina del Rey (where Dr. Postel was working).  The IANA Function was later contracted to ISI by the US Government as part of the Teranode contract, and that was subsequently replaced by the agreement between the US Gov and ICANN.  This is the set of services the US Government is now looking to transfer back to the private sector.

The services are performed under a number of independent operational agreements between the Operating Communities (OCs) and ICANN (as the current IANA Functions Operator), as well as under a contract between ICANN and the USG Department of Commerce given their stewardship role over these functions.

It is important to reiterate that the Policy and many of the Oversight responsibilities for these tasks lie with the communities and not the IANA Functions Operator (IFO). Community specific (and community defined) global policy development and oversight processes exist in the communities as part of their responsibilities for ensuring the continued smooth operation of the global Internet.  A web of relationships exists between these communities, and the relationships and mechanisms evolve as needed, and further defined in Part 0.

Coordination across the communities is clearly an essential component to the Internet's successful development, and collaboration is an integral part of the communities operating and policy development processes.  That cooperation and collaboration has led to the situation we have today, where nearly all registries are with the IANA Functions Operator (at ICANN) even though the operational and policy decisions for where these registries will be located, and how they will be run, is decentralized.
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