[IPC-GNSO] Fwd: [Soac-infoalert] Blog on the IANA Stewardship Transition & Year End

[Greg Shatan]

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From: *David Olive* <david.olive at icann.org>
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2015
Subject: [Soac-infoalert] Blog on the IANA Stewardship Transition & Year End
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IANA Stewardship Transition & Year End
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-year-end#>
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This past year has been busy for the community on all the transition
related work. It has been filled with many ups and downs, good moments and
challenging ones, and a year of incredible work, compromise, negotiation
and collaboration among all stakeholders. With the end of the year only
days away, it's a good opportunity to reflect on all that has been
accomplished and consider what's in store for the year ahead.

In March 2014, we began the work of facilitating the IANA Stewardship
transition process, working with the community to ensure it had what it
needed to conduct its work. Earlier this year, in May 2015, NTIA reached
out to the communities working on the transition proposal to ask how much
time they thought they would need to finalize and implement their
proposals. Based on the community's feedback, NTIA announced the contract
extension <https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2015/update-iana-transition> in
August from 30 September 2015 to 30 September 2016, a period of time that
includes the NTIA review and approval process and the implementation
forecasts submitted by the community. Secretary Strickling has emphasized
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/transcript-transition-facilitation-09oct15-en.pdf>
[PDF,
183 KB] the timing by which NTIA must receive the final proposals to allow
sufficient time on their part. Working backwards from September 2016, and
taking into consideration the NTIA review and the implementation time, the
community has been working tirelessly to finalize their proposals in
January.

Also over the past few months, our implementation team, led by Akram
Atallah, President, Global Domains Division, began administrative
preparation for the necessary implementation actions, including identifying
projects based on the current proposals, creating high-level timelines and
engaging with the community to better understand their reporting and
oversight needs. As communicated to the community, we estimate
implementation to take a minimum of four months. In collaboration with the
community we hold monthly calls
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transition-facilitation-2015-09-23-en>
regarding
any expected changes to the community timelines. This provides a useful
opportunity for the community working together to keep each other appraised
of how any of their work may impact the community-established timeline.

After all the progress at ICANN54, both the ICG and the CCWG-Accountability
have noted their expected time frames. The ICG finalized its work at
ICANN54 in Dublin, and provided a status update and proposal document
shortly after the meeting concluded. The group awaits confirmation from
CWG-Stewardship that its requirements have been met by the
CCWG-Accountability, who laid out
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/cross-community-working-group-on-enhancing-icann-accountability-icann54-co-chairs-statement>
a
rigorous timeline to submit its Work Stream 1 Recommendations at the end of
January 2016, which included development of a new Third Draft Proposal,
public comment period and Chartering Organization approval.

The Board submitted initial thinking based on the summary report
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-November/008390.html>,
and have already submitted their full public comments
<http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-ccwg-accountability-proposal-30nov15/msg00011.html>
to
help meet the timeline, and the Chartering Organizations and many members
of the community have been working diligently to get feedback in as soon as
reasonably possible. While keeping the CCWG-Accountability busy through
January, the goals set out by the CCWG-Accountability balance the various
timeline constraints, both inside and outside of the community.

However, while timeline concerns should continue to be addressed within the
CCWG-Accountability, we cannot risk the ability of ICANN to effectively do
its job on Internet identifiers for the sake of meeting that timeline.
Staff will continue to do everything we can to help the CCWG-Accountability
complete its work in time for NTIA to make a decision this year.

What will the next year bring? The community's work reaching the next
stages will be underway, and we look forward to supporting the community
and its work. We want to be clear that as the CCWG-Accountability weighs
the input from this public comment period, we are supportive of the
timeline the community lays out both from a staffing and a resource
perspective.

As many, including Steve and Fadi have said before
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/thoughts-heading-into-los-angeles>, it is
more important to get this done right than to get it done quickly, while
considering all the interdependencies including the U.S. and NTIA context.
For example, the U.S. Congress just passed a 2,009-page Omnibus spending
bill that limits NTIA's ability to use funds to relinquish the IANA functions
contract before 30 September 2016 (the final day of the current contract
term), and we need to remain aware of this, but not let it derail or drive
our process.

We thank the CCWG-Accountability for their tremendous effort to meet this
conclusion in time for a transition in 2016. I look forward to
collaborating constructively with the community in whatever they need, and
remain confident we will reach conclusion on the transition and achieve
this historical endeavor together.

   - ICANN Blog.
   https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-year-end#.VnUy8wQgOII.mailto
   - Author: Theresa Swinehart




David A. Olive
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