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Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing <ABBR
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<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px">The Cross Community
Working Group on Enhancing <ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers"
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Accountability was established to initiate a related process to the <ABBR
title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority"
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Stewardship Transition process to ensure that <ABBR
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers"
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accountability and transparency commitments to the global Internet community are
maintained and enhanced in the absence of its historical contractual
relationship with the U.S. Government.</P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px">This report for public
comment represents the current work product of the CCWG-Accountability. It is
focused on draft Work Stream 1 recommendations (Work Stream 1 is the
CCWG-Accountability's work on changes to <ABBR
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accountability arrangements which must be in place, or committed to, prior to
the <ABBR title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority"
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Stewardship transition), which were the focus of the first five months of work
(from December 2014 until May 2015). These recommendations are not presented as
the consensus of the CCWG-Accountability at this point. The CCWG-Accountability
is seeking confirmation of its approach and guidance upon several options.</P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px">The CCWG-Accountability
will hold two identical webinars at different times to facilitate participation
across time zones. The webinars will take place on:</P>
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<LI style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px 20px"><STRONG
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box">11 May from 11:00 – 12:30 UTC </STRONG>(time
zone converter <A
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href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CCWG-Accountability+Webinar&iso=20150511T11&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30">here</A>)
<LI style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px 20px"><STRONG
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box">11 May from 19:00 – 20:30 UTC </STRONG>(time
zone converter <A
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href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CCWG-Accountability+Webinar&iso=20150511T19&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30">here</A>)</LI></UL>
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<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px">The webinars will be run
in an <A
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href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/accountability/">Adobe Connect room</A>. If
you are interested in attending the webinar and would like to receive dial-in
details, please send an email to <A
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href="mailto:brenda.brewer@icann.org">brenda.brewer@icann.org</A> and indicate
which time you would like to attend the webinar. Please note that the webinar
will be conducted in English and will be recorded and transcribed. Subsequently
the transcripts will be translated in the 5 UN languages and posted on the
CCWG-Accountability Wiki <A
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href="https://community.icann.org/x/rYQ0Aw">here</A>.</P>
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<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1px">For further information
about the CCWG-Accountability's work, please see<A
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href="https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg">https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg</A>.</P>For
further information about the related <ABBR
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Stewardship Transition process, please see<A
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href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability">https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability</A>.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>