Name: Kurt Erik Lindqvist

Organization: NetnodSubmission ID: 45

Please find attached Netnod's respons.
-Best regards,- kurtis ---Kurt Erik Lindqvist, CEO
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Netnod Response to the IANA StewardshipTransition Coordination Group (ICG) Call for
Public Comment on IANA Stewardship Transition
Proposal
7 Septem ber 2 015

Netnod has been an active observer throughout the IANA Stewardship Transition Process.
We have closely followed the discussions in the various operational communities, and havereviewed the ICG combined proposal. Netnod wishes to make the following comments andobservations:
Netnod strongly supports the IANA Stewardship Transition Process.
Netnod supports the NTIA criteria set for the IANA Stewardship Transition proposal andbelieve they echo the principles by which the operational communities have operated under.
Netnod believes that:•The ICG draft proposal satisfies the criteria set by the NTIA.

•The process, by which the three operational proposals, as well as the combined ICG
proposal were developed, has been bottom-up, inclusive, transparent and open toanyone wishing to participate in the process.

•The combined ICG draft proposal is clear, complete, workable and representative of
the consensus of the three operational communities.

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The operational community proposals work together as a single proposal, with noobserved issues of compatibility and interoperability.

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The ICG draft proposal maintains the openness, resilience, and security of theInternet.

•The ICG draft proposal supports and enhances the bottom-up, consensus-driven,multistakeholder model.

Netnod further believes that completing the IANA Stewardship Transition is an important
step in acknowledging the maturity, stability and success of the bottom-up, consensusdriven multistakeholder governance model, a model that Netnod is a strong and active
advocate of.
Netnod believes that the bottom-up, inclusive, consensus-driven, multistakeholder model iswhat has allowed the Internet to develop as the unparalleled engine of economic growth andwww.netnod.seinnovation it is today. We further believe that the multistakeholder model has proven to be
the best model for maintaining an open, resilient, and secure Internet, as well as forminimising any potential risk of undue influence of any single stakeholder, government orotherwise.
We support the observations made by the Internet Society (ISOC) in its paper “Perspectives
on the IANA Stewardship Transition Principles”1.
Finally, we wish to express our appreciation to the ICG for its work, as well as all to themembers of the Internet community, who have contributed to this proposal.

Yours sincerely,
Kurt Erik Lindqvist,
CEO, Netnod

About Netnod
Netnod is a technical Internet infrastructure organisation based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Netnod manages Internet exchange points (IXPs) in Sweden and Denmark, offers DNS
anycast services globally. Netnod is also the operator of i.root-servers.net, one of 13 logical
DNS root name servers.
URL: https://www.netnod.se

https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/IANA-Transition-Perspectives20150728-en.pdf

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