[Internal-cg] Heads up on Secretariat function

[Alice Jansen]

Dear ICG Members,
The heads-up announcement was published on the website yesterday and may
be found: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-02-en
Very best regards
Alice 

On 9/2/14 9:33 AM, "Adiel Akplogan" <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:

>
>On Sep 2, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net> wrote:
>
>>> Dear Lynn,
>>> 
>>> you make some interesting points. Just a few remarks:
>>> 
>>> - Whereas the IETF has an organic link to ISOC, the same cannot be
>>>said to the ICG in relation to ICANN. This has legal and financial
>>>implications.
>> 
>> Yes, specially the legal implication is the main reason why through out
>>the actual RfP document that I have drafted ICANN has been mentioned as
>>the ³owner² of the process. I have however asked ICANN if this can be
>>accommodated in their process.
>
>Just got a response from ICANN that we can label the Request as from the
>ICG. Here is revised text.
>
>‹ 
>The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) will issue a
>Request for Proposal (RFP) to select a suitable contractor trough ICANN
>process to perform its secretariat function. The ICG was established as a
>result of a broad community consultation and in response to the
>announcement by the U.S National Telecommunication and Information
>Administration Department (NTIA) of its intent to transition key Internet
>domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community.
>
>The ICG is composed of representatives from different stakeholders groups
>to coordinate and deliver a single proposal. For more information about
>its role, please visit:
>https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship/coordination-group
>
>If you are interested in bidding for this proposal please send an
>Expression of Intent (EoI) to SecretariatForICG-rfp at icann.org by 07
>September 2014
>
>The Expression of Interest shall provide the Name of Organisation your
>organisation and your  Contact details.
>‹‹
>
>- a.