<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Please see the original link here: <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/additional-coordination-through-new-transition-facilitation-calls" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/additional-coordination-through-new-transition-facilitation-calls</a></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Apologies for the delay in forwarding to the list. </div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><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); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 500 !important;">
Additional Coordination Through New Transition Facilitation Calls</h1><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); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 500 !important;"><div class="EmbeddedHTML" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
One of the words most often heard during 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; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">IANA</abbr> Stewardship
Transition and Enhancing <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; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr>Accountability
processes has been <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">coordination</em> – coordination amongst communities, coordination amongst members and participants of working groups, coordination amongst community and staff members.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
As many who follow these processes know, they can at times be complex, and are interrelated. One group can rely on another for various needs, such as the formal dependency between CWG-Stewardship and CCWG-Accountability, or the necessary inputs groups contribute
into each other’s processes by way of Public Comment periods. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
At an informal breakfast meeting during ICANN53 in Buenos Aires with many of the transition working group chairs and <abbr title="Supporting Organization" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">SO</abbr>/<abbr title="Advisory Committee; or Administrative Contact (of a domain registration)" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">AC</abbr> leaders,
we shared a working draft transition timeline, and discussed how we could better ensure clearer alignment amongst all the agendas, timelines and expectations.</p><div class="floatcenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;"><img src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0.5rem; max-width: 98%; height: auto;"></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
As a result of the discussion that followed, the group decided it would hold monthly facilitation calls with each other, <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; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">ICANN</abbr> leadership
and <abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="box-sizing: border-box; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">NTIA</abbr>,
to discuss where each group stands at that given point in time. The group also decided that these meetings would <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</em> to be used to discuss substance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
The group agreed to share publicly the <a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">working
draft transition timeline</a> [PDF, 1.01 MB], as well as an <a href="http://audio.icann.org/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.mp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">audio
file</a> [MP3, 8.32 MB] of the first call with the community held last Thursday. As we move steadily towards completion of the first phase of 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; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); cursor: help; transition: all 0.2s; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;">IANA</abbr> Stewardship
Transition process, it is vital that we all stay aligned, and these monthly calls will help facilitate that.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
To listen to the audio of the first call, please see here: <a href="http://audio.icann.org/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.mp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">http://audio.icann.org/iana-stewardship-draft-transition-timeline-16jul15-en.mp3</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">
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