<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi everyone,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please find below the full text from email submission of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Work Stream 1 Report by the ICANN Board to NTIA.</div><ul><li>For access to all of the resources attached to the letter, please visit: <a href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability">https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability</a>.</li><li>The public Press Release has been distributed here (also translated into AR, ES, FR, RU, ZH): <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-03-10-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-03-10-en</a></li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you all and </span><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">congratulations again!</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Hillary </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">—</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">From: Steve Crocker </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Date: March 10, 2016 at 6:20:58 PM GMT</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">To: Larry Strickling, Fiona Alexander </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Cc: Steve Crocker, Fadi Chehade , Akram Atallah, Cherine Chalaby </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Subject: IANA Stewardship Transition and the Affirmation of Commitments</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">The Honorable Lawrence E. Strickling</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Assistant Secretary for Communication and Information and Administrator,</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">National Telecommunications and Information Administration</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">United States Department of Commerce</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Washington, DC 20230</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Re: IANA Stewardship Transition and the Affirmation of Commitments</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Dear Assistant Secretary Strickling:</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">On behalf of the ICANN Board of Directors it gives me great pleasure to transmit to you the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal, which outlines the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community. I am also pleased to transmit the CCWG Accountability Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations on Enhancing ICANN Accountability.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">In its 14 March 2014 announcement, NTIA asked ICANN to convene an inclusive, global discussion to determine a process for transitioning the stewardship of these functions to the multistakeholder community. It specifically stated that the transition proposal must have broad community support and address the following four principles:</font></div><ol><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Meet the needs and expectations of the global customers and partners of the IANA services; and,</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Maintain the openness of the Internet.</font></li></ol><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">NTIA also specified that it would not accept a proposal that replaces NTIA’s role with a government-led or intergovernmental organization solution.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Thirty individuals, representing the broad range of Internet stakeholder interests, were nominated by their respective communities to become a part of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). The ICG assembled input from three global multistakeholder communities with direct operational relationships with the IANA functions – Domain Names, Numbering Resources, and Protocol Parameters – to develop one single, cohesive proposal to facilitate the succession of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability), made up of members from ICANN’s Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, and over 200 participants, developed a separate proposal for enhancing ICANN’s accountability in light of the changing historical relationship with the U.S. Government.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">The proposals underwent extensive discussion and enjoy broad global community support. The relevant multistakeholder communities held over 600 calls and meetings with more than 32,000 mailing list exchanges over the past two years . The ICG proposal was finalized after the three operational communities of the IANA functions indicated consensus support for the proposal. The CCWG-Accountability proposal received consensus support from its members and was subsequently approved by the Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees which chartered the group. The proposals themselves describe at great length how their recommendations meet all of NTIA’s criteria. The ICANN Board agrees with the community that the proposals do in fact meet each of NTIA’s criteria. The ICANN Board resolutions for the package address each of the proposals.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">As you conduct your review of the package of proposals, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. , The ICANN multistakeholder community eagerly awaits the results of your review.</font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;">Dr. Stephen Crocker</span></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Enclosures:</font></div><ul><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Cover Page for IANA Stewardship Transition Package</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Cover Note from Dr. Stephen Crocker</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">ICANN Board Resolution on IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">ICANN Board Resolution on Enhancing ICANN Accountability Recommendations</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Proposal</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG- Accountability) Proposal</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">IANA Stewardship Transition Timeline</font></li><li><font face="Source Sans Pro,sans-serif">Diversity and Statistics on Development of IANA Stewardship Transition Package</font></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE"></div></div></body></html>