Broadcast and Cable – Witnesses to Hill: IANA Hand-Off Can Meet Contract Deadline
Steve DelBianco, executive director fo NetChoice and an ICANN official, sounded confident. “We can do it,” he said. “We have finished the hard work of a report that has been cleared by all of the multistakeholder members. We now have to match bylaws to that report. We’ve got high-paid lawyers, both for ICANN and for the [stakeholder] community. And they need to come together roughly a week from now with a draft that we can review. When that’s done, the only other step is to implement the set-up of certain corporations and creating panels and we can do that in time to get this transition completed.”
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DelBianco pointed out that NTIA chief Larry Strickling has said that if the new plan is not implemented by mid-August and the bylaws aren’t adopted “NTIA would extend the contract. We do have a safety valve.”
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