<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Many thanks, Leon</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A tremendous achievement: the UK Government greatly appreciates all the hard work and dedication by you, Thomas and Mathieu, all the support staff and the experts in the CCWG membership. I am sure that the Chartering Organisations will readily acknowledge how you have all ensured that this vitally important multi-stakeholder process has worked its way through many complexities and new challenges, applying a truly impressive collegiate and methodical approach, in order to deliver this proposal. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kind regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mark  </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Mark Carvell</div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​United Kingdom Representative on the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN​</div><br><div>Global Internet Governance Policy</div><div>Department for Culture, Media and Sport</div><div><a href="mailto:mark.carvell@culture.gov.uk" target="_blank">mark.carvell@culture.gov.uk</a></div><div>tel <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%2020%207211%206062" value="+442072116062" target="_blank">+44 (0) 20 7211 6062</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 February 2016 at 23:22, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx" target="_blank">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am forwarding the transmittal letter sent to the Chairs of our Chartering Organizations for your knowledge.</div><div><br><div>
<div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>León</div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Inicio del mensaje reenviado:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>De: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif">León Felipe Sánchez Ambía &lt;<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx" target="_blank">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>&gt;<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Asunto: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>CCWG Final report for your consideration</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Fecha: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif">23 de febrero de 2016, 5:20:42 p.m. GMT-6<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Para: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif">&quot;James M. Bladel&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com" target="_blank">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>&gt;, Thomas Schneider &lt;<a href="mailto:Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch" target="_blank">Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch</a>&gt;, Alan Greenberg &lt;<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>&gt;, Tripti Sinha &lt;<a href="mailto:tsinha@umd.edu" target="_blank">tsinha@umd.edu</a>&gt;, Brad Verd &lt;<a href="mailto:bverd@verisign.com" target="_blank">bverd@verisign.com</a>&gt;, Byron Holland &lt;<a href="mailto:byron.holland@cira.ca" target="_blank">byron.holland@cira.ca</a>&gt;, Patrik Fältström &lt;<a href="mailto:paf@frobbit.se" target="_blank">paf@frobbit.se</a>&gt;, Lise Fuhr &lt;<a href="mailto:fuhr@etno.eu" target="_blank">fuhr@etno.eu</a>&gt;, Jonathan Robinson &lt;<a href="mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info" target="_blank">jrobinson@afilias.info</a>&gt;<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" target="_blank">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>, Olof Nordling &lt;<a href="mailto:olof.nordling@icann.org" target="_blank">olof.nordling@icann.org</a>&gt;, Julia Charvolen &lt;<a href="mailto:julia.charvolen@icann.org" target="_blank">julia.charvolen@icann.org</a>&gt;, Tom Dale &lt;<a href="mailto:tom@acig.com.au" target="_blank">tom@acig.com.au</a>&gt;, Staff &lt;<a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" target="_blank">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a>&gt;, Carlos Reyes &lt;<a href="mailto:carlos.reyes@icann.org" target="_blank">carlos.reyes@icann.org</a>&gt;, &quot;Kimberly Carlson (<a href="mailto:kimberly.carlson@icann.org" target="_blank">kimberly.carlson@icann.org</a>)&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:kimberly.carlson@icann.org" target="_blank">kimberly.carlson@icann.org</a>&gt;, Bart Boswinkel &lt;<a href="mailto:bart.boswinkel@icann.org" target="_blank">bart.boswinkel@icann.org</a>&gt;, Julie Hedlund &lt;<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" target="_blank">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>&gt;, Grace Abuhamad &lt;<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" target="_blank">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>&gt;, David Olive &lt;<a href="mailto:david.olive@icann.org" target="_blank">david.olive@icann.org</a>&gt;, Theresa Swinehart &lt;<a href="mailto:theresa.swinehart@icann.org" target="_blank">theresa.swinehart@icann.org</a>&gt;, ACCT-Staff &lt;<a href="mailto:acct-staff@icann.org" target="_blank">acct-staff@icann.org</a>&gt;, Steve Crocker &lt;<a href="mailto:steve.crocker@icann.org" target="_blank">steve.crocker@icann.org</a>&gt;, Fadi Chehadé &lt;<a href="mailto:fadi.chehade@icann.org" target="_blank">fadi.chehade@icann.org</a>&gt;<br></span></div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">














<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear Chartering Organizations,</span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability
(CCWG-Accountability) is pleased to provide its Chartering Organizations with
its report on Work Stream 1 recommendations. You can download the full report
here: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/8w2AAw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">https://community.icann.org/x/8w2AAw</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">As per the CCWG-Accountability’s Charter, we
now seek your approval to submit this final report to the ICANN Board and ask
you to consider this approval in accordance with your respective SO or AC rules
and procedures by 9 March 2016 to meet the overall timing requirements, which
would allow the IANA Stewardship Transition (as a whole) to proceed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The report is the result of extensive work by the CCWG-Accountability’s 28
members, 175 participants and a team of highly qualified legal advisors since
December 2014, which included over 221 calls or meetings, 3 public
consultations and more than 13,900 email messages. It represents a carefully
crafted balance between key requirements, specific legal advice, and
significant compromises by all who participated and includes diligent attention
to the input received through the Public Comment proceedings. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The final proposal has received the consensus support of the CCWG-Accountability
with five minority statements from members recorded for Chartering Organization
consideration (see Appendix A). Please note that we are publishing our report
today with the minority statements delivered by the original 19 February
deadline, but we have given our members a final opportunity to revise, retract
or add minority statements based on our compromise reached this morning. We
will send you a revised Appendix A on 25 February. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">As noted in the CCWG-Accountability report, the group worked to meet both
NTIA requirements for the overall IANA Stewardship Transition (Annex 14), and
the CWG-Stewardship dependencies for the naming community on ICANN
accountability enhancements (Annex 13). The co-chairs of the CWG-Stewardship
and the CCWG-Accountability have coordinated their efforts. The CWG-Stewardship
will deliver a letter to you confirming that its dependencies have been met,
thus allowing the IANA Stewardship Transition proposal to move forward. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We will make ourselves together with or other
key contributors available to you before and during the ICANN 55 meeting in Marrakech
to answer any questions you may have and explain any details of the report. For
your information, further background documents as well as the slides,
recordings and transcripts of recent webinars explain the details of the final
proposal are available here: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Should you have any further questions please
do not hesitate to contact us.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thank you very much for your continued support.</span></p><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thomas Rickert, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Mathieu Weill and </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Leon Sanchez</span></p>

<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">CCWG-Accountability
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