Fw: D--INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Fleming <jfleming@anet.com>
To: lisa.jandovitz@nist.gov <lisa.jandovitz@nist.gov>; teresa.reefe@nist.gov
<teresa.reefe@nist.gov>
Cc: emaxwell@doc.gov <emaxwell@doc.gov>; bburr@ntia.doc.gov
<bburr@ntia.doc.gov>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 3:06 AM
Subject: D--INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY


>Jandovitz, Lisa K. - lisa.jandovitz@nist.gov
>            name: Jandovitz, Lisa K.
>           phone: (301) 975-6344
>          depart: Acquisition and Assistance Division (357)
>          office: Supply & Plant (301), Room B118
>          agency: NIST
>         address: 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3572
>                : Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572
>           email: lisa.jandovitz@nist.gov
> alternate email: lisaj@nist.gov
>
>Reefe, Teresa - teresa.reefe@nist.gov
>            name: Reefe, Teresa
>           phone: (301) 975-6364
>          depart: Acquisition and Assistance Division (357)
>          office: Supply & Plant (301), Room B171
>          agency: NIST
>         address: 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3572
>                : Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572
>           email: teresa.reefe@nist.gov
> alternate email: reefe@nist.gov
>
>
>Good morning, I gather that the announcement below is a sole
>sourced contract, or using your words, "only one responsible source".
>Given that is the case, can you please explain how you have determined
>that the so-called ICANN organization posseses the following ?
>
>"ICANN now possesses the unique attributes
>  and characteristics specific to the IANA functional tasks"
>
>"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"
>
>Thanks for your time and attention to these questions.
>
>Jim Fleming
>Unir Corporation
>Naperville, IL 60563
>
>
>@@@ http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/9c1020.htm
>
>Submission No. 284696
>January 4, 1999 -- 12:34
>[Commerce Business Daily: Posted in CBDNet on January 4, 1999]
>From the Commerce Business Daily Online via GPO Access
>[cbdnet.access.gpo.gov]
>
>PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS
>SUBPART: SERVICES
>CLASSCOD: D--Information Technology Services, including Telecommunication
>  Services
>OFFADD: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Acquisition
>  & Assistance Div.,100 Bureau Drive Stop 3572, Bldg. 301, Rm
>  B117, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572
>SUBJECT: D--INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY
>SOL 52SBNT9C1020
>DUE 021899
>POC Teresa A. Reefe, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6364 or Lisa
>  K. Jandovitz, Contracting Officer (301) 975-6344.
>DESC: 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 continuity
>  of 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.
>LINKURL: http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract.htm
>LINKDESC: NIST Contracts Homepage
>EMAILADD:Contract@nist.gov
>EMAILDESC: NIST Contracts Office
>CITE: (W-004 SN284696)
>
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