<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Anne, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The CCWG-Accountability Second Draft was published August 3, while the GAO report was published August 19.  The GAO report does make reference to the Second Draft on page 22.  So, technically, the answer is no.  Substantively, the answer is a bit different.  The GAO report is essentially a &quot;warm-up&quot; -- it provides history, explanations and background, as well as proposing a &quot;structured assessment&#39; approach to the output of the ICG and CCWG, but does not engaged in any significant substantive assessment of either report.  It does assess the process and finds it satisfactory overall (but the reporting period ends before the Board&#39;s recent &quot;intervention&quot;).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It&#39;s questionable whether the GAO report actually satisfies the mandate of the House Committee that commissioned it. Here&#39;s the Committee&#39;s letter: <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/letters/20140605GAO.pdf">http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/letters/20140605GAO.pdf</a>.</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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Aikman-Scalese, Anne <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrlaw.com" target="_blank">AAikman@lrrlaw.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Shatan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 18, 2015 11:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> IPC-GNSO<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IPC-GNSO] GAO Report on IANA Transition Released<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The GAO report on NTIA&#39;s proposed transition of the stewardship and oversight of the IANA functions has now been released.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Here is the link: <a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-642" target="_blank">http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-642</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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