[CWG-Stewardship] Seeing the Big Picture: A Reflection One Year into the IANA Stewardship Transition

Fri Mar 20 23:04:06 UTC 2015

Dear all, 

As we commence our weekends (where many of us will continue to work on the
CWG-Stewardship work anyway!), I would like to share with you a recent blog
post  
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/seeing-the-big-picture-a-reflection-one-yea
r-into-the-iana-stewardship-transition> by Theresa Swinehart reflecting the
year since NTIA's March 2014 announcement. If you have a moment, please take
a look at the statistics reflecting the amount of work that the community
has put into this process. We have often been too focused on the negatives
to truly appreciate the positives.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Grace

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-into-the-iana-stewardship-transition

Seeing the Big Picture: A Reflection One Year into the IANA Stewardship
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Working Session at ICANN 52 in Singapore, February 2015
Last Saturday, March 14th, marked the one-year anniversary of the NTIA's
announcement of its intent to transfer its stewardship of the IANA functions
to the Internet's global multistakeholder community. In the year since, the
work and dedication shown by the stakeholders all over the world to develop
a transition proposal has been impressive. Yet, I get questions all of the
time asking, "What is going on now? Where's the proposal?"
Like many of you, I'm following these processes everyday  whether it's
responding to emails, participating in calls or meeting around the world to
raise awareness and discuss both the transition and work to enhance ICANN's
accountability with stakeholders, and to support the community's engagement.
Of course, not everyone is so deeply involved, and the work of the
multistakeholder groups can be sometimes be complicated; its progress not
always tangible. But what has occurred since the March announcement is
remarkable and is a demonstration of the community working together to
achieve this historical milestone.
So what has occurred  it's worth taking a step back to highlight what has
been accomplished:
The community has developed and is deep into two parallel processes:
* The IANA Stewardship Transition, focused on delivering a proposal to
transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder
community; and
* Enhancing ICANN Accountability, focused on ensuring that ICANN remains
accountable absent its historical contractual relationship with the U.S.
Government.
To drive these processes, the community created multilayered, transparent,
and diverse working groups to foster discussion and, within those groups,
develop working methods and systems for determining consensus.
Representatives from more than 50 countries and the global business
community are working together to contribute to the discussion.
With some help from our friends in the working groups, SO/AC leadership and
internal staff support for the transition we have calculated that as of
March 14th 2015:
Calls and Meetings: The working groups have held over 115 group calls and 6
face-to-face meetings. The time in these calls and meetings totals over 245
hours, and that does not include the countless hours of drafting, prep
calls, document finalization, public comment assessment and information
sharing.
Mailing List Exchanges: The working groups have exchanged over 12,446 emails
through the more than 30 publicly archived community mailing lists dedicated
to discussions of the transition and accountability processes.
Global Discussions: ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement team and ICANN
leadership have participated in an estimated 219 events around the world,
building awareness among diverse stakeholders and discussing the intricacies
of the transition. Its important to note that this number does not count
attendance for webinars, multiple sessions conducted at one event, nor
events that ICANNstaff was unable to attend.
It's apparent there is no shortage of effort dedicated to this significant
undertaking. So let me again thank everyone involved in these processes,
including those supporting them within ICANN and in the broader Internet
community. We could not do it without you!
As NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling recently said, "I think the IANA
transition, by being the most direct and concrete demonstration of the
multistakeholder model at work on a difficult issue that engages everybody
in the community, whether they come from the United States or any other part
of the world, whether they come from business or civil society or from the
technical community, is the absolute best demonstration we can make that
this is a powerful process, that it delivers outcomes, and that it is a
model that we all should aspire to and protect."
Yes, our community is in a fishbowl  all eyes are on us, watching to see if
the multistakeholder model works.  NTIA is confident, I am confident and you
should be confident too that, together, we will meet this test. We will
achieve our historical goal.
-TS

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