All,
Interesting FYI. One wonders why the ICANN did not put this out'
on an announcment. That openness thing again I suppose....
>From Commerce Business Daily, January 6, 1999 PSA-2256
INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY
Category : <D> (Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunication
Services)
Address : National Institute of Standards & Technology, Acquisition &
Assistance Div.,100 Bureau Drive Stop 3572, Bldg. 301, Rm
B117,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572Sol. no. : 52SBNT9C1020
Contact : Teresa A. Reefe, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6364 or Lisa
K.
Jandovitz, Contracting Officer (301) 975-6344Due : 18
Feb,
1999
SOL 52SBNT9C1020 DUE 021899 POC Teresa A. Reefe, Contract Specialist
(301) 975-6364 or Lisa K. Jandovitz, Contracting Officer (301)
975-6344
WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage,
http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract.htm.
E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The National
Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), on behalf of the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) intends to
award
a contract under the authority of 41 USC 253(c)(1), only one
responsible
source, to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) for operation of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The
Department of Commerce has initiated an effort to transition the
technical management of Internet Names and Addresses from the
Government
to the private sector. In June, 1998, the Department issued its
Statement of Policy which outlined the steps of the transition. The
Department through NTIA has since entered into a joint project
agreement
(15 U.S.C. 1525) with ICANN, a non-profit entity. Pursuant to this
JPA,
the parties will "jointly design, develop and test the mechanisms,
methods and procedures that should be in place and the steps necessary
to
transition management responsibility for DNS functions now performed
by
or on behalf of the U.S. Government to a private sector non-profit
entity". NTIA is initiating this contract action to fulfill its need
for
continuity of services related to the technical management of Internet
Names and Addresses during the transition described in the Statement
of
Policy and the JPA. This particular aspect of the technical
management,
the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), is currently covered
in
a contract between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA)
and the University of Southern California (USC) in project known as
Teranode Network Technology (TNT). On December 24, 1998, USC, entered
a
transition agreement under which ICANN acquired the expertise and
resources to perform the IANA function described in the TNT contract.
Pursuant to its agreement with USC, ICANN now possesses the unique
attributes and characteristics specific to the IANA functional tasks.
To
ensure the success of the transition described in the Statement of
Policy and the JPA, the Department must ensure the continuityof the
services necessary to support the IANA function. Further, ICANN has
unique attributes to fulfill these tasks in compliance with the
principles in the Department's Statement of Policy, including
comprehensive, public, and transparent processes, mechanism and
structures for making policy determinations that the U.S. Government
seeks to have performed during the transition. The period of
performance
is estimated to be from date of contract award through September 30,
2000. Posted 01/04/99 (W-SN284696). (0004)
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact Number: 972-447-1894
Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
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