[CWG-Stewardship] Blog: IANA Stewardship Transition & Year End

[Grace Abuhamad]

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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, NTIAreached 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, NTIAannounced 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-facilitat
ion-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-30
nov15/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.


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