<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">All,</div><div class="">I am pleased to let you know that the first CCWG report on the current status of our work has been published for public comment. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As mentioned during previous briefings to the Council, it is most important you communicate this to your respective groups and beyond to encourage feedback. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The report does not contain consensus recommendations and for some questions it offers alternative suggestions while indicating which options got most traction in the group so far. Please do make sure you review and let us know whether we are heading in the right direction as we continue to refine our recommendations. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In order to be as inclusive as possible, we have developed an engagement plan which includes webinars. You find links to those webinars further down in this e-mail. Also, we have worked on graphics that shall facilitate understanding our recommendations. These can be found here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/Draft+Report" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/Draft+Report</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please make sure you take a look at them in addition to going through the report. They are fun to read! </div><div class="">The report also includes a punchy executive summary for readers that do not want to dive into details of what we did. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your continued attention to this important subject.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class="">Thomas Rickert</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 758px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""><div style="width: 738px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""><a href="http://www.icann.org/" class=""><img alt="ICANN" src="http://www.icann.org/images/gradlogo_bow.jpg" style="border: 0px; width: 94px; height: 94px; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" class=""></a><h2 class="">News Alert</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2015-05-04-en" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2015-05-04-en</a></p><hr style="margin: 20px 0px 0px;" class=""><h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) - Input Needed on its Proposed Accountability Enhancements (Work Stream 1)</h2><p class="">4 May 2015</p><table class="convey" style="width: 737px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="light" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><strong class="">Forum Announcement:</strong></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em;" class="">Comment Period Opens on</td><td class="light" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><strong class="">Date:</strong></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em;" class="">4 May 2015</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="light" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><strong class="">Categories/Tags:</strong></td><td colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em;" class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Transparency/Accountability</li><li class="">Reviews/Improvements</li><li class="">IANA Stewardship Transition</li></ul></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="light" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><strong class="">Purpose (Brief):</strong></td><td colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em;" class=""><p class="">The CCWG-Accountability requests community feedback on the proposed enhancements to ICANN's accountability framework it has identified as essential to happen or be committed to before the IANA Stewardship Transition takes place (Work Stream 1). Your input will help the CCWG-Accountability to improve its proposal and carry on with next steps, including Chartering Organizations' endorsement of the CCWG-Accountability output before it is submitted to the ICANN Board. This comment period is an opportunity for you to make your voice heard and to shape the outcome of the CCWG-Accountability work.</p><p class="">In order to have time to analyze and process community feedback before ICANN53 (21-25 June), and considering the key dependencies Work Stream 1 has with the work related to the IANA Stewardship Transition, the CCWG-Accountability determined that the maximum time that could be allotted to this comment period is 30 days. The CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1 proposals are not final: a second Public Comment period is planned for July, and will be a full 40-day period. Because this (first) Public Comment period is less than the required 40-day minimum, it has been approved by two ICANN Global Leaders.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="light" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><strong class="">Public Comment Box Link:</strong></td><td colspan="3" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding: 0.5em;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ccwg-accountability-draft-proposal-2015-05-04-en" class="">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ccwg-accountability-draft-proposal-2015-05-04-en</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-05-04-en" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-05-04-en</a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.31rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding: 0px 0px 1rem; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); 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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;" class="">The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> Accountability was established to initiate a related process to the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;" class="">IANA</abbr> Stewardship Transition process to ensure that <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;" class="">ICANN</abbr>'s accountability and transparency commitments to the global Internet community are maintained and enhanced in the absence of its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. Government.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;" class="">This report for public comment represents the current work product of the CCWG-Accountability. It is focused on draft Work Stream 1 recommendations (Work Stream 1 is the CCWG-Accountability's work on changes to <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;" class="">ICANN</abbr>'s accountability arrangements which must be in place, or committed to, prior to the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;" class="">IANA</abbr> Stewardship transition), which were the focus of the first five months of work (from December 2014 until May 2015). These recommendations are not presented as the consensus of the CCWG-Accountability at this point. The CCWG-Accountability is seeking confirmation of its approach and guidance upon several options.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;" class="">The CCWG-Accountability will hold two identical webinars at different times to facilitate participation across time zones. The webinars will take place on:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 20px;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">11 May from 11:00 – 12:30 UTC </strong>(time zone converter <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CCWG-Accountability+Webinar&iso=20150511T11&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; clear: both; background-color: transparent;" class="">here</a>)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">11 May from 19:00 – 20:30 UTC </strong>(time zone converter <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CCWG-Accountability+Webinar&iso=20150511T19&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; clear: both; background-color: transparent;" class="">here</a>)</li></ul></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><img src="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=964438&act=4CPM&r=20485490&c=165637" width="1" height="1" style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>