Name: Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva
Organization: Brazilian Government
Submission ID: 115

Dear ICG members,
Please find attached the comments of the Brazilian Government to the "Proposal toTransition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions
from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community".
Kind regards,
Secretário Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva
Divisão da Sociedade da Informação (DI)Ministério das Relações Exteriores -­‐ Brasil
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Division of Information Society (DI)Ministry of External Relations -­‐ Brazil
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Brasília, 8 September 2015

Comments of the Brazilian Government on the" Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions fromthe U.S. Commerce Department’s National
Telecommunications and Information Administration(NTIA) to the Global Multistakeholder Community"

1. The Brazilian Government commends the ICANN
Community - especially the Domain Names, Internet
Numbers and Protocol Parameters Registries Communities- for their effort in drafting the aforementioned IANA
transition proposal.
2. The participation of the Government of Brazil in thegiven process has been largely guided by the principles
enshrined in the "NETmundial Multistakeholder
Statement", which states, i.a., that the IANA Transition
process should lead to "a truly international and globalorganization serving the public interest with clearly
implementable and verifiable accountability andtransparency mechanisms that satisfy requirements fromboth internal stakeholders and the global community"(Roadmap, Chapter II, § 6).
3. Accordingly,
the Brazilian Government hasrepeatedly indicated that it might defeat the purpose forwhich the IANA transition process was established if itwere to be guided by a purely technical perspective Brazil
has furthermore highlighted that it is crucial to make surethat the IANA transition process be structured in a way thatall stakeholders feel fully involved – including
governments - in order to ensure that the final outcome ofthe exercise is also considered legitimate by allparticipants.
4. In that light, the Government of Brazil takes thisopportunity to reiterate the comments made in its position
paper of 20 May 2015 with regards the "Response to theIANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Request
for Proposals on the IANA Stewardship Transition from theCross Community Working Group on Naming Related
Functions (CWG-Stewardship)".
5. While endorsing the GAC decision – in its role as aChartering Organization to the CWG-Stewardship –concerning submission by the Domain Names community
proposal to the IANA Transition Coordination Group(ICG), Brazil recalls that some GAC members haveexpressed concerns about some aspects of the said
proposal.
6. Taking into account that a final assessment of the ICG
proposal will depend, to a large extent, on the outcome oftopics being discussed under the CCWG-Accountability
proposal, Brazil therefore reserves its right to further
comment on the final transition proposal, if necessary, on
the basis of concerns previously expressed.