<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please see the blog post below from the CCWG-Accountability co-chairs, including a link to a draft overview of the major trends seen in the 88 comments received by the CCWG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br>
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<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/building-momentum-an-update-from-the-ccwg-accountability-co-chairs" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/building-momentum-an-update-from-the-ccwg-accountability-co-chairs</a></div>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As co-Chairs of the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">ICANN</abbr> Accountability
(CCWG-Accountability), we wanted to provide a quick status update for the community on where things currently stand in our proposal development.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At 23:59 UTC on 12 September, the public comment period on the CCWG-Accountability 2nd Draft Proposal closed. <abbr title="Stakeholders" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">Stakeholders</abbr> from
all around the world studied our proposal and provided feedback for our consideration -- we received a substantial <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ccwg-accountability-03aug15/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">88 comments</a> on
the proposal. For a draft overview of the major trends seen in the comments received see <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/attachments/20150915/8167a9d5/2nd-draft-CCWGtrends-v4-0001.pdf" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here</a>[PDF,
3.6 MB].</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Overall our assessment at this stage finds that there is significant support and appreciation for the CCWG's requirements and work
to date. There was general agreement that elements proposed in the 2nd Draft Proposal enhance <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">ICANN</abbr>'s
accountability, and we believe that our group should take this as a sincere recognition of the quality of work done in preparing the proposal. That said, there are still areas of the proposal that many felt need further details or clarification. This reconsideration
deserves careful assessment, and it will be important for the group to discuss these details in full to see where and if we can reach consensus before moving into the next phase of our proposal development.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Over the next week, our team will be finalizing an assessment of the feedback received and we will begin to allocate out suggestions
to sub-groups of the CCWG for evaluation. We sense that some suggestions will be relatively straight-forward to incorporate, and for those suggestions which will prove to be more challenging to find consensus on, we will deliberate at the important face-to-face
meeting next week in Los Angeles on <a>25-26 September</a>. We should expect that a large portion of our time in
Los Angeles will be reserved to answering the tough questions, and it's important that we come out of the meeting with an idea of how to move forward together.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">We've accomplished an extraordinary amount of work since our first meeting in December, but as with so many other things in life,
the final stretch may prove to be the most demanding.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Let's keep up the energy. Let's keep up the momentum. Our community, including our <abbr title="IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">ICG</abbr>colleagues,
is counting on us to deliver a proposal. Let's make this happen.</span></p>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">CCWG-Accountability co-Chairs</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Thomas Rickert</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Mathieu Weill</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">León Sanchez</span></div>
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