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<div><span></span>Thank you, Yuko! </div><div><br></div><div>Very helpful. More clearer now. </div>
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<div><span><div style="margin: 10px; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Bell MT" color="#333300"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Jian Zhang</b></span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div style="font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Bell MT" color="#333300"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Director, Policy & Public Affairs</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div style="font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><font face="Bell MT" color="#333300">KNET, Co., Ltd.</font></span></p></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div></div></span></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div> </div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma;COLOR:#000000; BACKGROUND: #efefef; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; PADDING-TOP: 8px"><div><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:yuko.green@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Yuko Green</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2016-07-07 07:24</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:jczhang@knet.cn" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Jian Zhang</a>; <a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Grace Abuhamad</a>; <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cwg-stewardship</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> RE: [CWG-Stewardship] Implementation Planning Update (Volume 3)</div></div></div><div><div class="FoxDiv20160707102310462369"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Jian Zhang,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for your e-mail. Regarding your first question, the percentage completion is calculated based on project plans. Each project plan has tasks that need to be completed and duration for each of the task. The overall percentage completion reported is an aggregate of the progress of the various tasks for each project. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As for the second question, the 30-legislative day review period was a requirement of the proposed DOTCOM bill. That bill has not yet become law. NTIA completed its assessment of the transition proposals and issued its report on 9 June 2016 <</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-assessment-report" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2016/iana-stewardship-transition-proposal-assessment-report</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>. We cannot predict what Congress may do through its legislative and oversight authority. ICANN continues to focus on planning and preparations to implement the recommendations of the ICG and CCWG-Accountability proposals to ensure a timely transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I hope this addresses your questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yuko Green<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><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>Jian Zhang<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 29, 2016 12:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> Grace Abuhamad <grace.abuhamad@icann.org>; cwg-stewardship <cwg-stewardship@icann.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Implementation Planning Update (Volume 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Hi, Grace,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for the updates. They are very helpful. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">One thing that always puzzles me is how how to understand the methods of quantifying the tasks. For instance, the diagram indicates that 35% is left in transition, did you calculate this by the remaining days or other indicators? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">I also remember that at first it was anticipated to have 30 "legislative days" (by congress) to review the proposal. But they seemed to be gone. So, NTIA has completed the review, and it's done. All the left is basically the implementation plan that will be prepared by ICANN staff. Is this understanding correct? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><hr size="1" width="210" style="width:157.5pt" noshade="" align="left"></span></div><div><div style="margin-left:7.5pt;margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif;color:#333300">Jian Zhang</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif;color:#333300">Director, Policy & Public Affairs</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Bell MT",serif;color:#333300">KNET, Co., Ltd.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin-left: 6pt; margin-top: 0px;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0563C1">Grace Abuhamad</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> 2016-06-21 04:41<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0563C1">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> [CWG-Stewardship] Implementation Planning Update (Volume 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> Original link: <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-implementation-planning-update-volume-3-en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-implementation-planning-update-volume-3-en</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">IANA<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Stewardship Transition Implementation Planning Update (Volume 3)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN is compiling updates on the progress of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability implementation planning efforts. This information is positioned to help inform interested stakeholders on the recent developments in the processes, upcoming key dates, and latest documents and drafts that occur over the timeframe.<br> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="900" height="420" id="Picture_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0020_1" src="cid:_Foxmail.1@e770f4ff-78f2-e887-2fdc-9b684512f76e" alt="tps://www.icann.org/uploads/ckeditor/IANA_Implementation_Timeline_blogjune.gif"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 1rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Management</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">The</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey"> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">Root Zone</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey"> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">Management implementation planning track contains projects relating to changes to the root zone management system (RZMS) to remove NTIA's authorization process, parallel testing of the production and parallel test RZMS, and the development and execution of an agreement with Verisign as the root zone maintainer.</span></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Management System (RZMS) Changes to Remove Root Aone Administrator (RZA) Role and Support Parallel Testing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">We are 75 days into the 90-day parallel testing period and everything continues to go smoothly. Click here to view<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.verisign.com/rzms-parallel-ops/index.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Verisign’s daily Parallel Operations</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Management System Comparison Reports</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of all the root zone files generated.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be posting the second of three Monthly Reports on RZMS Parallel Testing Progress during the testing period in the coming days. The report will be available on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN’s dedicated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship-implementation/root-zone-management-system-parallel-testing" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Parallel Testing webpage</span></a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">In the event that no unexplained differences in root zone files are identified between the production RZMS and the parallel test RZMS, the testing period will end successfully on 5 July 2016.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.verisign.com/rzms-parallel-ops/index.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Verisign Daily Parallel Operations</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Management System Comparisons</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Maintainer Agreement (RZMA)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN and Verisign are working to finalize the last outstanding details of the RZMA. The agreement will be posted for public review once it is finalized.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 1rem; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Stewardship Transition</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">The Stewardship Transition planning track contains projects to prepare agreements with the operational communities, creation of a Post-Transition IANA (PTI) entity, establishment of a Customer Standing Committee (CSC) and a Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC), operationalizing the IANA customer service escalation mechanisms and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).</span></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Service Level Expectations (SLEs) for Naming Community</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The ongoing work to define performance targets for the naming community is on track.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has been collecting SLE data since March, and based on the data received, aims to propose performance targets to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocwgdtstwrdshp/DT-A+Service+Levels+Expectations" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">SLE Design Team</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of the Cross Community Working Group Names (CWG-Stewardship) for their consideration in July.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">In addition to collecting data,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is also working to develop an online dashboard that will display the final performance targets and actual performance against targets.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mailing list:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/dt1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/dt1</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>IANA<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Numbering Services</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Number Resource Organization (NRO) published a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/ICANN-RIR-SLA-signature25May16.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">version 5.2 of the SLA</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to remove any references to an Annex as the description in Article 4.3 is sufficient for the purposes of the SLA.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 27 May 2016, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Board issued a resolution (<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2016-05-27-en#1.c" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">2016.05.27.06</span></a>) approving the SLA for signing. Once signed, the SLA will go into effect upon the successful completion of the transition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/ICANN-RIR-SLA-signature25May16.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Service Level Agreement for the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">IANA</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Numbering Services (Final Signature Document)</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/SLAv5.2-proposedfinal-track25May16.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Redline of changes between SLA versions 5.1 and 5.2</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Mailing list:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.nro.net/pipermail/ianaxfer/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">https://www.nro.net/pipermail/ianaxfer/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Memorendum of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental Agreement for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 27 May 2016, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Board issued a resolution (<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2016-05-27-en#1.d" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">2016.05.27.07</span></a>) approving the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>MoUSupplemental Agreement for signing. Once signed, the agreement will go into effect upon the successful completion of the transition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Mailing list:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Customer Standing Committee (CSC)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 1 June,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sent a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/51-csc-request-for-appointment-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Request for Appointment of Members and Liaisons to the CSC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Chairs and co-Chairs of all of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Supporting Organizations,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Advisory Committees, and the Registry Stakeholder Group.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The request asks that the respective organizations to initiate their processes to appoint candidates to serve as members and liaisons to the CSC.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The deadline for appointing organizations to send candidate selections is 22 July.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/29-csc-scope-and-responsibilities-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">CSC Scope and Responsibilities</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/47-csc-charter-clarification-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">CSC Candidates Qualification Requirements</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/47-csc-charter-clarification-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">CSC Charter</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/47-csc-charter-clarification-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">CSC Charter FAQ</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"><br></span><span style="color:#0098D5">CSC Charter Clarification</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/51-csc-request-for-appointment-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Request for Appointment of Members and Liaisons to the CSC</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Mailing list:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Evolution Review Committee (RZERC)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">A draft<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf/attachments/20160601/e7410045/RZERCCharter-ForPublicComment.docx" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">charter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the RZERC has been finalized and is currently posted for a 30-day public comment period through 10 July 2016.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-rzerc-charter-2016-06-10-en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Public Comment Forum</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://comments-draft-rzerc-charter-10jun16@icann.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Submit Comment to Forum</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-rzerc-charter-10jun16/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Comments Forum</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Once the RZERC Charter has been adopted,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will take the steps necessary to form the committee, which will become operational upon the successful completion of the transition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-rzerc-charter-10jun16-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Evolution Review Committee Charter</span></a><br> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mailing list:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf</span></a>/</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Post-transition<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>IANA<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(PTI)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation for PTI were circulated to the community on 13 May 2016.ICANN’s legal team is currently working with the CWG-Stewardship’s independent legal counsel to revise the draft documents. Once the documents are finalized they will be posted for public comment.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Additionally,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf/2016-May/000112.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">shared</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a draft implementation approach for PTI to the IOTF on 24 May. Discussions with the IOTF on this proposed approach are ongoing.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/35-pti-implementation-approach-v-v1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Implementation Approach</span></a><br> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mailing list:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf</span></a>/</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><h1 style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 1rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Accountability Enhancements</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">The Accountability Enhancements Planning track contains projects to plan for implementation of enhancements to</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey"> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">ICANN’s Independent Review and Reconsideration Request processes, to updateICANN’s governance documents, and to operationalize new community powers defined by the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey"> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">ICANN</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey"> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:lightgrey">Accountability (CCWG-Accountability).</span></em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN's New Bylaws</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status Update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN's legal team<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/2016-May/000332.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">distributed</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the summary and analysis of Public Comments and the proposed revisedICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bylaws to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Board and Bylaws Coordination Group on 25 May 2016. The external legal teams affirmed that the New Bylaws reflected the Proposals’ recommendations. These resources were also made available on the public comment page.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/StaffReportofBylawsPublicComment-UPDATED-0001.docx" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Summary Report of Public Comments</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/ChartofICANNAnalysisofPublicCommentsonBylaws-25May2016-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Detailed Chart of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">ICANN's Analysis of the Comments</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/f4e9ff42/Bylaws-Redline-May26toMay25-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Proposed New Bylaws (Revised to address comments)</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/25May2016-REDLINE-ICANNBylaws-Postpubliccomment-redlineto20April2016-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Redline of Bylaws (Changes from 20 April)</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/MemotoBylawsCoordinationGroup-25May2016-0001.doc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Memo to Bylaws Coordination Group on Items for Consideration</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 27 May 2016, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Board issued resolutions (<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2016-05-27-en#1.a" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">2016.05.27.01-2016.05.27.04</span></a>) adopting the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/adopted-bylaws-27may16-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">newICANN</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">Bylaws</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>transmitted the new Bylaws to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that same day.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bylaws will be deemed effective upon the expiration the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>IANA<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Functions Contract between<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>NTIA.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/StaffReportofBylawsPublicComment-UPDATED-0001.docx" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Summary Report of Public Comments</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/ChartofICANNAnalysisofPublicCommentsonBylaws-25May2016-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Detailed Chart of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="color:#0098D5">ICANN's Analysis of the Comments</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/f4e9ff42/Bylaws-Redline-May26toMay25-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Proposed New Bylaws (Revised to address comments)</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/25May2016-REDLINE-ICANNBylaws-Postpubliccomment-redlineto20April2016-0001.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Redline of Bylaws (Changes from 20 April)</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/MemotoBylawsCoordinationGroup-25May2016-0001.doc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Memo to Bylaws Coordination Group on Items for Consideration</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Mailing list(s):</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN's Updated Articles of Incorporation</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN’s Draft Restated Articles of Incorporation are currently posted for a 40-day public comment period through 6 July 2016.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-restated-articles-incorporation-2016-05-27-en" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Public Comment Page</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://comments-draft-restated-articles-incorporation-27may16@icann.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Submit a Comment to the Forum</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-restated-articles-incorporation-27may16/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Comments Forum</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Any interested party may review and provide feedback on the draft Restated Articles during the public comment period. The comments will be analyzed and incorporated for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ICANN<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Board prior to its consideration of the adoption of the Restated Articles.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Restated Articles must be adopted as part of the implementation planning process. Once adopted, the Restated Articles are expected to go into effect upon the successful completion of the transition.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-restated-articles-incorporation-25may16-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft Restated Articles of Incorporation</span></a> [PDF, 78 KB]</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-restated-articles-incorporation-redline-25may16-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">Comparison of draft Restated Articles to Current Articles</span></a> [PDF, 75 KB]</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Mailing list:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5rem; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Independent Review Process (IRP)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Status update:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The CCWG-Accountability formed a Working Party called the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/WP-IOT+-+IRP+Implementation+Oversight+Team" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0098D5">IRP Implementation Oversight Team (IOT)</span></a>to define procedures for the enhanced IRP process defined by the CCWG-Accountability in its Work Stream 1 proposal.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Documents/announcements posted:</span></strong></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4rem; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Mailing list:</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote>
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