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The At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC) welcomes the  opportunity to provide comments in response to the Further Notice of Inquiry (FNOI) issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for certain Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions (the IANA Functions Contract).

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About At-Large 

At-Large is the name for the community of individual Internet users who participate in the policy development work of ICANN. More than 134 At-Large Structures (ALSes) each representing the views of hundreds and indeed thousands more individual Internet users are active throughout the world. At Large Structures are accredited organisations who are included in the ICANN community and its activities, as way to participate in building the future of the worldwide Domain Name System (DNS) and other unique identifiers which every single user of the Internet relies on with every online visit they make.  These ALSes are organised into 5 Geographically defined  Regional At-Large Organisations (RALOs); for more detailed information on this and these structures please see the Google Map of the RALOs and ALSes at: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/maps/   and it is through this unique and well balanced model that we claim a truly global spread of influence between ICANN and end users and individual domain name registrants 'at-large'. This graphic shows the relationships of each structure party with ICANN At-Large, RALO and ALAC in ICANN diagram

For more information please visit:ALAC and At-Large

ICANN At-Large Contact   staff@atlarge.icann.org

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Specific comments to FNOISpecific comments:

Like other respondents and specifically the ccNSO community, ALAC welcomes NTIA’s commitment to ICANN’s multi-stakeholder process for coordination of the Internet’s Domain Name System and its decision to keep the three core IANA functions processes bundled and performed by a single entity, and further appreciates and supports the NTIA’s commitment to automation of the IANA’s root zone management functions as well as the intention for improvements to the transparency and security associated with IANA's functions and reporting. ALAC is also particuparly pleased that NTIA agrees with us and many in the Internet community in that ICANN’s multistakeholder processes must continue to respect and facilitate the participation of all stakeholders, including governments in these processes .

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