Strickling said Monday ICANN will continue to transition the IANA control from NTIA to a group of technology stakeholders through Sept. 30, 2016 with options to extend the contract for another three years.
The NTIA administrator noted that the Internetâs global multistakeholder community needs more time to finish the work and the government to review the plan.
NTIA has requested a proposal from Verisign and ICANN on how to lift NTIAâs responsibility over the root zone management and maintain the security of the Internetâs domain name system, added Strickling.
The groups developing the transition documents took into consideration the period for public comment and government evaluation and implementation of the proposals, according to Strickling.