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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>Please see below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>A significant milestone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Grace Abuhamad [mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 11 June 2015 15:54<br><b>To:</b> Alan Greenberg; Byron Holland; Thomas.Schneider@bakom.admin.ch; Jonathan Robinson; Patrik Fältström<br><b>Cc:</b> Lise Fuhr; Theresa Swinehart; Bart Boswinkel; Marika Konings; Bernard Turcotte<br><b>Subject:</b> CWG-Stewardship Response for Chartering Organization Consideration and Approval<br><b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Sent on behalf of CWG-Stewardship Chairs by support staff. </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>To: CWG-Stewardship Chartering SOs and ACs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>The ALAC, ccNSO, GAC, GNSO, and SSAC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>Dear SO and AC Chairs, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>CWG-Stewardship proposed response to the ICG RFP the IANA Stewardship Transition</span></b><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>The Cross Community Working Group on Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship) is pleased to provide its Chartering Organizations with its proposed response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Request for Proposals on the IANA Stewardship Transition for your consideration and approval as per its Charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>The response is the result of extensive work by the CWG’s 19 members, 133 participants and a team of highly qualified legal advisors over the past year, which included over 100 calls or meetings, 2 public consultations and more than 4,000 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. The final proposal has received the consensus support of the CWG-Stewardship with no objections or minority statements recorded for Chartering Organization consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>As noted in the CWG-Stewardship proposal itself, the proposal is significantly dependent and expressly conditioned on the implementation of ICANN-level accountability mechanisms proposed by the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability). The co-chairs of the CWG-Stewardship and the CCWG-Accountability have coordinated their efforts and the CWG-Stewardship is confident that the CCWG-Accountability recommendations, if implemented as expected, will meet the requirements that the CWG-Stewardship has previously communicated to the CCWG. If any element of these ICANN level accountability mechanisms is not implemented as contemplated by the CWG-Stewardship proposal, this proposal will require revision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>We also note that there are certain implementation elements that will require further dialogue in the near future, including with the other operational communities, and these have been marked as such in the final proposal. Two specific issues are particularly important to highlight. One is the finalization of the service level expectations (SLEs), where the proposal includes a set of agreed principles between the CWG and IANA, but these remain to be finalized in the form of a mutually agreed set of SLEs. A detailed plan for this finalisation is being worked on and it is our view that this detail, whilst vitally important, does not impact on the substance of the proposal put to you for approval. The second issue entails the location of intellectual property rights and this needs further discussion with the other respondents to the ICG RFP and ICANN. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>As per the CWG-Stewardship’s Charter we now seek your approval to submit this final proposal to the ICG and ask you to consider this approval in accordance with your respective SO or AC rules and procedures by 25 June 2015 to meet the overall timing requirements which would allow the transition to proceed, noting that final approval is conditional on the approval of the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1 recommendations.</span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>We will make ourselves, together with or other key contributors, available to you at the ICANN 53 meeting in Buenos Aires in order to answer any questions you may have and to explain any details of the proposal. 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=X-NONE style='color:black'><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/sJc0Aw"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://community.icann.org/x/sJc0Aw</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>. </span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.</span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'> </span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Lise Fuhr & Jonathan Robinson</span><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:11.05pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Co-Chairs, CWG-Stewardship</span></i><span lang=X-NONE style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>