[IPC-GNSO] Fwd: [CWG-Stewardship] ICANN Stays Busy While NTIA Reviews Transition Proposals

[Greg Shatan]

Fellow IPC Members,

Here's the latest ICANN Blog.

Greg
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From: Grace Abuhamad <grace.abuhamad at icann.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:50 PM
Subject: [CWG-Stewardship] ICANN Stays Busy While NTIA Reviews Transition
Proposals
To: "cwg-stewardship at icann.org" <cwg-stewardship at icann.org>


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https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-stays-busy-while-ntia-reviews-transition-proposals




ICANN Stays Busy While NTIA Reviews Transition Proposals

There is no such thing as idle time in the ICANN community. Now that
the IANA Stewardship Transition proposals have been submitted to the U.S.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA), ICANN staff and the community are focused on a handful of efforts
related to the transition, including pre-planning implementation, and
continuing education and awareness-building.

We collaborate with the community weekly, and often daily, to make sure we
are aligned on our plans to implement the proposals. Given the high number
of ongoing projects, providing clear and consistent updates has been one
of ICANN’s highest priorities. Resources from all meetings and calls are
postedpublicly <https://www.icann.org/stewardship-implementation#meetings>,
as are a new series of implementation planning updates. We encourage anyone
interested to visit the website
<https://www.icann.org/stewardship-implementation>, and explore the
sub-pages for an overview, status updates and relevant links for each
project.

Over the last week, a remarkable amount of work by the three legal teams
went into finalizing the amended ICANN Bylaws. All of the input received
during the public comment period was carefully reviewed. Many of the
suggested changes to the Bylaws that would better demonstrate the
recommendations in the transition proposals were incorporated, however
comments aimed at changing recommendations were not incorporated. All three
legal teams affirmed that the revised Bylaws are consistent with the
transition proposals. For more information on how each comment was
assessed,ICANN published a detailed analysis and response to each comment
here
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/attachments/20160526/aa622ea1/ChartofICANNAnalysisofPublicCommentsonBylaws-25May2016-0001.pdf>
.

Last Friday, the ICANN Board passed resolutions
<https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2016-05-27-en> to
adopt the new ICANN Bylaws, which were later transmitted to NTIA as the
final piece of the transition package of proposals. The Board also approved
two important community agreements for signing – the Regional Internet
Registries Service Level Agreement
<https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/ICANN-RIR-SLA-signature25May16.pdf> and
the Internet Engineering Task Force Memorandum of Understanding
Supplemental Agreement – which will become effective upon completion of the
transition. The Board also approved posting of the Draft Restated Articles
of Incorporation
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/draft-restated-articles-incorporation-25may16-en.pdf>
for
a 40-day public comment period
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-restated-articles-incorporation-2016-05-27-en>.
The adoption of these resolutions represents a major milestone for our
implementation planning.

To build awareness of the transition, many ICANN community, staff and Board
members have participated in and contributed to dozens of regional events,
media briefings, roundtables and informational webinars since Marrakech.
Our participation in these events is primarily aimed at providing details
and context around the community’s proposals, answering questions, sharing
developments about the status of the U.S. Government’s review process and
giving updates on our implementation planning efforts. We encourage all of
our stakeholders to join these informative discussions. Please visit ICANN’s
events calendar
<https://features.icann.org/calendar?keys=&field_date_value%5Bmin%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_date_value%5Bmax%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_region_value=All&field_event_type_value%5B%5D=IANA+Functions%27+Stewardship+Transition>
to
find upcoming events in your region.

On Capitol Hill, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing last March
during which stakeholders testified in support
<http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings-and-votes/hearings/privatizing-internet-assigned-number-authority>
of
the transition. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation held a hearing
<http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/5/hearing-to-examine-iana-transition-to-global-multistakeholder-community>
in
May during which stakeholders indicated their support for the consensus
proposals and warned of the consequences of delaying or postponing the
transition. During this hearing, letters of support from industry
<http://blogs.intel.com/policy/files/2016/04/Business-Open-Letter-supporting-IANA-Transition-VersionV.pdf>
 and civil society groups
<https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2016/05/CSstatementonIANAtransitionMay2016-1.pdf>
within
the community were entered into the hearing record. Thank you to the
stakeholders who worked so hard to participate in the hearings. We are
grateful for your commitment to the multistakeholder model.

The community has completed perhaps the most important part of this process
by developing the transition proposals and new Bylaws, but our work is not
yet over. Thank you to everyone involved for your ongoing participation,
engagement and support throughout the transition process.

- Akram & Theresa

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