Name: The Number Resource Organisation (NRO)
Organization: The Number Resource Organisation (NRO)
Submission ID: 97

The Number Resource Organisation (NRO) submits this statement in response to the ICG’s
IANA Transition Proposal, announced on 31 July 2015.
The ICG proposal incorporates the proposal submitted to the ICG by the Consolidated RIR
IANA Stewardship Proposal (or “CRISP”) Team, on 15 January 2015, representing the views of
the global Internet numbering communities.
The CRISP team developed the number community proposal after consultations within the five
regional Internet numbering communities, which followed well-established, community-driven,bottom-up processes, facilitated by each of the RIRs. The CRISP team consolidated the outputsof these regional discussions to form a single Number Community Proposal.
The ICG’s draft proposal incorporates all the three proposals from the names, numbers andprotocol parameters communities. In order to respond to the ICG’s call for public comment, theNRO asked the CRISP team to validate the ICG proposal against the Number Community
Proposal, and against the ICG’s stated requirements for the transition plan (which include thoseestablished by the NTIA).
The NRO is pleased to see that CRISP has produced a thorough and positive validation of theICG proposal in its contribution to the ICG consultation process, and that it did not find any
incompatibilities, either with the Number Community Proposal, or with the ICG requirements.
The NRO hereby endorses that contribution as a well-founded representation of the views andpriorities of the Internet number communities.
Furthermore, the NRO would like to make the following remarks with regards to implementationquestions:a. The NRO has recently concluded a second round of public comments of the proposal
Service Level Agreement (SLA) as required by the CRISP proposal. The NRO willprocess these comments and will enter into a period of informal dialogues with ICANN toclarify concerns, and will then publish any proposed changes for further public review,
before any final agreement is signed.
b. On the question of Intellectual Property, the NRO was happy to see the proposal fromthe Board of ICANN on creating an independent trust. We believe this solution isconsistent with the Numbers Proposal, which suggests the IETF Trust as an example ofa suitable independent holder of the Intellectual Property.
c. The NRO has also concluded one round of public comments on a Charter for theproposed Review Committee for IANA numbering services, and a final proposed charter
will be published shortly. The five RIRs are working on the selection of members andexpect to finalize this process by the end of 2015.

With this in mind, the NRO wishes to affirm that the numbers portion of the ICG proposal:●Reflects a demonstrated consensus of the numbering community on the IANA transition
plan, following open and inclusive bottom-up consultation processes;●Fulfills the criteria established by the NTIA's IANA stewardship transition process;●Acts in the interests of the global multi-stakeholder Internet community;●

Maintains the stability, security and reliability of the Internet, quality of IANA services andgoal of community empowerment, all of which elements were identified by the numbers
community in the CRISP proposal.

The NRO fully supports the CRISP response to the combined ICG proposal, and would
like to thank the ICG and CRISP teams for their hard work and dedication towards thegoal of the IANA stewardship transition.

Submitted by:
Alan BarrettCEOAFRINIC
John CurranPresident and CEO
ARINPaul Wilson
Director General
APNIC
Oscar Robles
CEOLACNIC
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC