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<p class="MsoNormal">Original link: <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-implementation-planning-update-volume-4">
<span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-implementation-planning-update-volume-4</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">IANA Stewardship Transition Implementation Planning Update (Volume 4)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#EEEEEE"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Root Zone Management implementation planning track contains projects relating to changes to the root zone management system (RZMS) to remove NTIA's authorization
role, 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></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone Management System (RZMS) Changes to Remove Root Zone Administrator (RZA) Role and Support Parallel Testing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 6 July 2016, ICANN and Verisign <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-07-14-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">successfully completed</span></a> the 90-day parallel testing period
of theRoot Zone Management System (RZMS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">During the testing period, zero unexplained differences were found between the production RZMS and the parallel test version of the RZMS, which has the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) authorization step removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">You can view <a href="http://www.verisign.com/rzms-parallel-ops/index.html"><span style="color:#0098D5">daily comparison reports</span></a> created during the testing period on Verisign's website.
Additionally, monthly progress reports for the testing period are available on ICANN's designated <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship-implementation/root-zone-management-system-parallel-testing"><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone Management System
Parallel Testing webpage</span></a>.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Documents/announcements posted:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-07-14-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">90-day Root Zone Management System "Parallel Testing" Period Ends Successfully</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.verisign.com/rzms-parallel-ops/index.html"><span style="color:#0098D5">Verisign Daily Parallel Operations Root Zone Management System Comparisons</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/55-rzms-parallel-testing-monthly-report-2-v-06jun16"><span style="color:#0098D5">Second RZMS Monthly Progress Report </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone Maintainer Agreement (RZMA)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN and Verisign have <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/root-zone-management-transition-update-preservation-of-security-stability-and-resiliency"><span style="color:#0098D5">completed</span></a> the
discussions and negotiations for the Root Zone Maintainer Services Agreement (RZMA). On 29 June 2016, ICANN published the <a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/63-root-zone-maintainer-agreement-v-1-0"><span style="color:#0098D5">RZMA</span></a> for
a 30-day public review period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/root-zone-management-transition-update-preservation-of-security-stability-and-resiliency"><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone Management Transition Update:
Preservation of Security, Stability and Resiliency</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/63-root-zone-maintainer-agreement-v-1-0"><span style="color:#0098D5">Root Zone</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Maintainer
Services Agreement</span></a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Stewardship Transition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#EEEEEE"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">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></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Service Level Expectations (SLEs) for Naming Community<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">As noted previously, ICANN has been collecting SLE data over the past 3 ½ months in order to propose performance targets to the SLE Design Team of the Cross Community Working Group Names (CWG-Stewardship)
for their consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">An analysis of the aggregated data, as well as ICANN’s proposed thresholds for the SLEs, are provided in a <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160715/92175b9a/PreliminarySLEData-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">summary
report</span></a> that was circulated to the community last week. ICANN will be holding a call this week to discuss the report and demo the dashboard that will be used to report on PTI’s actual performance against agreed-to thresholds with the CWG-Stewardship,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160715/92175b9a/PreliminarySLEData-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Preliminary Review of Service Level Expectation Data</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Mailing list:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/dt1"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/dt1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA Numbering Services<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-29-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">signed</span></a> the <a href="https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/ICANN-RIR-SLA-signature25May16.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">SLA
for the</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">IANA</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Numbering Services</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The agreement will become effective on the date of the transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-29-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">ICANN Signs Service Level Agreement with Regional Internet Registries and Finalizes 2016 Supplemental
Agreement with Internet Engineering Task Force</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Mailing list:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.nro.net/pipermail/ianaxfer/"><span style="color:#0098D5">https://www.nro.net/pipermail/ianaxfer/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental Agreement for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN has signed the 2016 <a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/59-2016-icann-ietf-mou-supplemental-agreement-v-1-0"><span style="color:#0098D5">Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental
Agreement with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)</span></a> for the performance of the protocol parameters functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The agreement will become effective on the date of the transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-29-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">ICANN Signs Service Level Agreement with Regional Internet Registries and Finalizes 2016 Supplemental
Agreement with Internet Engineering Task Force</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/iana_imp_docs/59-2016-icann-ietf-mou-supplemental-agreement-v-1-0"><span style="color:#0098D5">Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental Agreement with the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Customer Standing Committee (CSC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The deadline for appointing organizations to send candidate selections is Friday, 22 July 2016. ICANNwill then forward the appointments to the ccNSO and GNCO Councils for final approval of the full
CSC membership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Mailing list:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">A public comment period on the RZERC draft charter was closed on 10 July 2016. In total, <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-rzerc-charter-2016-06-10-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">7
individuals and organizations submitted comments</span></a>. ICANN staff is currently finalizing an analysis of the comments received.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN hopes to be able to begin forming the committee soon. The RZERC will become operational upon the successful completion of the transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">None.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Mailing list:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf"><span style="color:#0098D5">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/iotf</span></a>/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Post-transition IANA (PTI)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">There are currently three public comment periods underway for the formation of PTI. Any interested party may review and provide feedback on these important PTI formation documents.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">1)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-pti-articles-incorporation-2016-07-01-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft
PTI Articles of Incorporation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The proposed draft of the PTI Articles of Incorporation was developed to meet the community proposal recommendation that a new legal entity be formed to perform the three IANA functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Articles were drafted to the ICG and CWG-Stewardship proposals, which were developed through public processes, and adopted by the ICANN Board and transmitted to NTIA on 10 March 2016. The public
comment process provides the community with an opportunity to comment on whether the drafted Articles are inconsistent with the proposals, and is not intended to be a forum for the reconsideration of the proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Closes: 31 July 2016 at 23:59 UTC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>2)</b> <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/pti-governance-documents-2016-07-08-en"><span style="color:#0098D5">PTI Governance Documents</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The governance documents include the:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Draft PTI Conflict of Interest Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Draft PTI Board Code of Conduct<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Draft PTI Expected Standard of Behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Conflict of Interest Policy and Board Code of Conduct were developed to strengthen PTI’s governance practices, and the Expected Standard of Behavior was developed to guide PTI's Board, staff,
customers and broader community on expected standards to guide their participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Each of these documents is modeled off of the versions already in force in ICANN, and the public comment period is intended to seek comments on conformance of these documents to PTI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Closes: 7 August 2016 at 23:59 UTC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>3) <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-pti-bylaws-2016-07-12-en"><span style="color:#0098D5;font-weight:normal">Draft PTI Bylaws</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">PTI Bylaws contains PTI's governance requirements, including composition of the Board, conduct of Board meetings, powers of the Board and PTI officers, and budgeting, planning and record keeping
requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Bylaws were drafted to meet the ICG and CWG-Stewardship proposals, which were developed through public processes, and adopted by the ICANN Board and transmitted to NTIA on 10 March 2016. The
public comment process provides the community with an opportunity to comment on whether the drafted Bylaws are inconsistent with the proposals, and is not intended to be a forum for the reconsideration of the proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Closes: 11 August 2016 at 23:59 UTC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
In addition, ICANN has circulated to the community drafts of the ICANN-PTI contracts for review, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/NamingFunctionAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft
Naming Function Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/RIRSubcontractAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft
Number Subcontracting Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/IETFSubcontractAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.docx"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Protocol
Parameter</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Subcontracting Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:51.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/ICANN-PTIServicesAgreementHeaders-Draftasof15July2016-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">ICANN-PTI
Intercompany Services Agreement headers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<b>Documents/announcements posted:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-pti-articles-incorporation-01jul16-en.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Articles of Incorporation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-pti-bylaws-12jul16-en.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Bylaws</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-pti-coi-08jul16-en.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Conflict of Interest Policy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-pti-code-of-conduct-08jul16-en.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Board Code of Conduct</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-pti-expected-standards-08jul16-en.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft PTI Expected Standard of Behavior</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/NamingFunctionAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft Naming Function Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/RIRSubcontractAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.pdf"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft Number Subcontracting
Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/attachments/20160716/63d8860e/IETFSubcontractAgreement-Draftasof15July2016-0001.docx"><span style="color:#0098D5">Draft</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Protocol
Parameter</span><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="color:#0098D5">Subcontracting Agreement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#EEEEEE"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Accountability Enhancements Planning track contains projects to plan for implementation of enhancements to ICANN’s Independent Review and Reconsideration
Request processes, to update ICANN’s governance documents, and to operationalize new community powers defined by the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability).</span></i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN's Updated Articles of Incorporation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Status update:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The 40-day public comment period on ICANN’s Draft Restated Articles of Incorporation was extended by one week, and closed on 13 July 2016. In total, <a href="https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-restated-articles-incorporation-27may16/"><span style="color:#0098D5">6
submissions</span></a> were received during the comment period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">ICANN staff is currently finalizing an analysis of the comments received.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The CCWG-Accountability formed a Working Party called the <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=59643726"><span style="color:#0098D5">IRP Implementation Oversight Team
(IOT)</span></a>to define supplemental procedures for the enhanced IRP process defined by the CCWG-Accountability in its Work Stream 1 proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The IOT has held 5 meetings and all resources and archives can be found <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/WEIA/IRP-IOT+Meetings"><span style="color:#0098D5">here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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