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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grace Abuhamad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 20, 2015 11:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cwg-stewardship@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CWG-Stewardship] Seeing the Big Picture: A Reflection One Year into the IANA Stewardship Transition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">As we commence our weekends (where many of us will continue to work on the CWG-Stewardship work anyway!), I would like to share with you a recent
<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/seeing-the-big-picture-a-reflection-one-year-into-the-iana-stewardship-transition">
blog post </a>by Theresa Swinehart reflecting the year since NTIA's March 2014 announcement. If you have a moment, please take a look at the statistics reflecting the amount of work that the community has put into this process. We have often been too focused
on the negatives to truly appreciate the positives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">To view the original post, please see: <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/seeing-the-big-picture-a-reflection-one-year-into-the-iana-stewardship-transition">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/seeing-the-big-picture-a-reflection-one-year-into-the-iana-stewardship-transition</a></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Working Session at ICANN 52 in Singapore, February 2015</span></em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Last Saturday, March 14th, marked the one-year anniversary of the NTIA's announcement of its intent to transfer its stewardship of the IANA functions to the Internet's global multistakeholder
community. In the year since, the work and dedication shown by the stakeholders all over the world to develop a transition proposal has been impressive. Yet, I get questions all of the time asking, "What is going on now? Where's the proposal?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Like many of you, I'm following these processes everyday – whether it's responding to emails, participating in calls or meeting around the world to raise awareness and discuss both the transition
and work to enhance ICANN's accountability with stakeholders, and to support the community's engagement. Of course, not everyone is so deeply involved, and the work of the multistakeholder groups can be sometimes be complicated; its progress not always tangible.
But what has occurred since the March announcement is remarkable and is a demonstration of the community working together to achieve this historical milestone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">So what has occurred – it's worth taking a step back to highlight what <em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">has</span></em> been accomplished:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">The community has developed and is deep into two parallel processes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">The IANA Stewardship Transition</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">, focused on delivering a proposal to transition
the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Enhancing ICANN Accountability</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">, focused on ensuring that ICANN remains accountable
absent its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. Government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">To drive these processes, the community created multilayered, transparent, and diverse working groups to foster discussion and, within those groups, develop working methods and systems for determining
consensus. Representatives from more than 50 countries and the global business community are working together to contribute to the discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">With some help from our friends in the working groups, SO/AC leadership and internal staff support for the transition we have calculated that as of March 14th 2015:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Calls and Meetings:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"> The working groups have held over <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">115
group calls</span></strong> and <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">6 face-to-face meetings</span></strong>. The time in these calls and meetings totals<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> over 245 hours</span></strong>,
and that does <em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">not</span></em> include the countless hours of drafting, prep calls, document finalization, public comment assessment and information sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Mailing List Exchanges:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"> The working groups have exchanged over <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">12,446
emails</span></strong> through the more than 30 publicly archived community mailing lists dedicated to discussions of the transition and accountability processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Global Discussions:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"> ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement team and ICANN leadership have participated in
an estimated <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">219 events around the world,</span></strong> building awareness among diverse stakeholders and discussing the intricacies of the transition. Its important to note that this number does
not count attendance for webinars, multiple sessions conducted at one event, nor events that ICANNstaff was unable to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">It's apparent there is no shortage of effort dedicated to this significant undertaking. So let me again thank everyone involved in these processes, including those supporting them within ICANN and
in the broader Internet community. <em><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">We could not do it without you!</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">As NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling recently said, "I think the IANA transition, by being the most direct and concrete demonstration of the multistakeholder model at work on a difficult issue
that engages everybody in the community, whether they come from the United States or any other part of the world, whether they come from business or civil society or from the technical community, is the absolute best demonstration we can make that this is
a powerful process, that it delivers outcomes, and that it is a model that we all should aspire to and protect."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Yes, our community is in a fishbowl – all eyes are on us, watching to see if the multistakeholder model works. NTIA is confident, I am confident and you should be confident too that, together,
we will meet this test. We will achieve our historical goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">-TS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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