<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for sending! It's great news. Congratulations to all the people who worked to complete the transition.<br></div>Joan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Klaus Stoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdrstoll@gmail.com" target="_blank">kdrstoll@gmail.com</a>></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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<p>CONGRATULATION TO EVERYBODY!</p>
<p>Yours</p>
<p>Klaus<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two
and a half years ago, the ICANN multistakeholder Community
embarked on a journey to develop a globally agreed on plan to
transition the U.S. Department of Commerce, National
Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA)
stewardship of the IANA functions to the global Internet
Community. The process signaled the historic final step in
transitioning the coordination and management of the
Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector that began
with the formation of ICANN in 1998.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
process to develop the package of transition proposals
embodied the spirit of the Internet itself – global, diverse
and inclusive. People from different economic sectors,
cultures, interests and backgrounds worked together to develop
two consensus proposals that ensure the continued stable and
secure operation of the IANA services and an enhanced
accountability for ICANN. One of the proposals focused on
ICANN’s transparency and accountability. The other focused on
arrangements with the three operational communities, the
Regional Internet Registries for numbers, the Internet
Engineering Task Force for protocol parameters, and the
top-level domain registries for names.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
proposal development process reflected the Community’s
dedication and commitment to achieving this historic final
step. The community spent hundreds of hours in calls and
meetings and exchanged tens of thousands of emails exploring
and discussing complex governance issues, debating different
views, and eventually finding consensus. This process tested
and strengthened the trust in and across the ICANN community,
and is a good demonstration of global multistakeholder policy
development working. The resulting package of proposals has
<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-stewardship-support-statements-13sep16-en.pdf" target="_blank">broad
support</a> because it reflects the Community’s work, and
preserves the existing multistakeholder system while laying
the foundation for a more accountable and equitable balance
within the ICANN ecosystem.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today,
after months of preparation and implementation of the
community’s tasks, ICANN’s contract with NTIA expired. As a
result, the coordination and management of the Internet’s
unique identifiers is now privatized and in the hands of the
volunteer-based multistakeholder community.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
transition will help to ensure the continuation of a single,
open Internet that users around the world can rely on for
years to come. I am honored to be ICANN’s Chairman of the
Board during this historic process.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The
operational mechanisms and enhanced accountability frameworks
outlined in the proposals are enshrined in
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en" target="_blank">ICANN’s
new Bylaws</a>, which are now in effect. The ICANN
Community, Board and organization will now move forward
together as a more accountable and transparent body. These
changes, while vitally important for the relationships and
management of ICANN, will have no visible effect on the
operation of the Internet. The very large ecosystem of
Internet System Providers, content providers and users will
continue to function without change.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank
you all again for your work throughout this process. I look
forward to our ongoing collaboration on further accountability
and transparency enhancements in Work Stream 2 of the Cross
Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability, and
everything else yet to come.<u></u><u></u></p>
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