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APNIC 38 Session on IANA Stewardship Transition Showcases Community Progress and Diversity

8 October 2014
By
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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Anyone who has followed the developments in Internet governance over the past year should be well aware of the IANA Stewardship Transition. ICANN has facilitated a process that resulted in the formation of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), which currently holds the reins of the transition process.

The group has made impressive progress since its formation in early July. After just two months together members have developed working methods, procedural documents and, most notably for members of the community, published an RFP that solicits proposals from the communities that most closely work with the IANA functions – i.e. the domain names, numbering resources and protocol parameters.

Since the announcement of the RFP, discussions have become even broader and more diverse both across the community and the globe. The individual communities that make up the names, numbers and protocols are working diligently to develop consultation processes that will inevitably result in one of the three draft proposals submitted to the ICG, and these consultation processes are occurring in regions all over the world.

An example of this regional community engagement took place at APNIC 38 in Brisbane, Australia recently where the first Regional Internet Address Registry (RIR) session on building a framework for developing a proposal took place. The Consultation Session was well attended and it also was live streamed on YouTube.

The session began with overviews presented by APNIC Chair Maemura Akinori, APNIC Director General Paul Wilson who also is a member of the ICG, and Craig Ng, General Counsel of APNIC. They provided background on the IANA Stewardship Transition and a draft proposal that has already been prepared for discussion. Members of the community spent time going through the draft proposal item by item, and participants were encouraged to continue the discussion throughout the week and over their mailing list as well. The session then closed following a very active Q&A session.

A video of the session can be viewed here.

A transcript of the session can be found here [TXT, 63 KB].

The dialogue at APNIC 38 is just one example of the high interest the IANA Stewardship Transition process has generated in all regions of the world. It's evident the global multistakeholder community is taking this transition very seriously and I'm looking forward to continued dialogue during the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles.

Authors

Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

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