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ICANN is compiling updates on the progress of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability implementation planning efforts. This information is positioned to help inform
interested stakeholders on the recent developments in the processes, upcoming key dates, and latest documents and drafts that occur over the timeframe.
The Root Zone Management implementation planning track contains projects relating to changes to the root zone management system (RZMS) to
remove NTIA's authorization role, parallel testing of the production and parallel test RZMS, and the development and execution of an agreement with Verisign as the root zone maintainer.
Status update:
On 6 July 2016, ICANN and Verisign successfully
completed the 90-day parallel testing period of theRoot Zone Management System (RZMS).
During the testing period, zero unexplained differences were found between the production RZMS and the parallel test version of the RZMS, which has the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) authorization step removed.
You can view daily comparison reports created
during the testing period on Verisign's website. Additionally, monthly progress reports for the testing period are available on ICANN's designated Root
Zone Management System Parallel Testing webpage.
Documents/announcements posted:
90-day Root Zone Management System "Parallel Testing" Period Ends Successfully
Verisign Daily Parallel Operations Root Zone Management System Comparisons
Second RZMS Monthly Progress Report
Status update:
ICANN and Verisign have completed the
discussions and negotiations for the Root Zone Maintainer Services Agreement (RZMA). On 29 June 2016, ICANN published the RZMA for
a 30-day public review period.
Documents/announcements posted:
Root Zone Management Transition
Update: Preservation of Security, Stability and Resiliency
Root Zone Maintainer
Services Agreement
The Stewardship Transition planning track contains projects to prepare agreements with the operational communities, creation of a Post-Transition IANA (PTI)
entity, establishment of a Customer Standing Committee (CSC) and a Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC), operationalizing the IANA customer service escalation mechanisms and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Status update:
As noted previously, ICANN has been collecting SLE data over the past 3 ½ months in order to propose performance
targets to the SLE Design Team of the Cross Community Working Group Names (CWG-Stewardship) for their consideration.
An analysis of the aggregated data, as well as ICANN’s proposed thresholds for the SLEs, are provided in a summary
report that was circulated to the community last week. ICANN will be holding a call this week to discuss the report
and demo the dashboard that will be used to report on PTI’s actual performance against agreed-to thresholds with the CWG-Stewardship,
Documents/announcements posted:
Preliminary Review of Service Level Expectation
Data
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Status update:
ICANN and the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have signed the SLA
for the IANA Numbering
Services.
The agreement will become effective on the date of the transition.
Documents/announcements posted:
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Status update:
ICANN has signed the 2016 Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) Supplemental Agreement with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the performance of the protocol parameters functions.
The agreement will become effective on the date of the transition.
Documents/announcements posted:
Status update:
The deadline for appointing organizations to send candidate selections is Friday, 22 July 2016. ICANNwill then forward the appointments to the ccNSO and
GNCO Councils for final approval of the full CSC membership.
Documents/announcements posted:
None.
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Status update:
A public comment period on the RZERC draft charter was closed on 10 July 2016. In total, 7
individuals and organizations submitted comments. ICANN staff is currently finalizing an analysis of the comments received.
ICANN hopes to be able to begin forming the committee soon. The RZERC will become operational upon the successful completion of the transition.
Documents/announcements posted:
None.
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Status update:
There are currently three public comment periods underway for the formation of PTI. Any interested party may review and provide feedback on these important PTI formation documents.
1) Draft
PTI Articles of Incorporation
The proposed draft of the PTI Articles of Incorporation was developed to meet the community proposal recommendation that a new legal entity be formed to perform the three IANA functions.
The Articles were drafted to the ICG and CWG-Stewardship proposals, which were developed through public
processes, and adopted by the ICANN Board and transmitted to NTIA on 10 March 2016.
The public comment process provides the community with an opportunity to comment on whether the drafted Articles are inconsistent with the proposals, and is not intended to be a forum for the reconsideration of the proposals.
Closes: 31 July 2016 at 23:59 UTC
The governance documents include the:
·
Draft PTI Conflict of Interest Policy
·
Draft PTI Board Code of Conduct
·
Draft PTI Expected Standard of Behavior
The Conflict of Interest Policy and Board Code of Conduct were developed to strengthen PTI’s governance practices, and the Expected Standard of Behavior was developed to guide PTI's Board, staff,
customers and broader community on expected standards to guide their participation.
Each of these documents is modeled off of the versions already in force in ICANN, and the public comment period is intended to seek comments on conformance
of these documents to PTI.
Closes: 7 August 2016 at 23:59 UTC
PTI Bylaws contains PTI's governance requirements, including composition of the Board, conduct of Board meetings, powers of the Board and PTI officers, and budgeting, planning and record keeping
requirements.
The Bylaws were drafted to meet the ICG and CWG-Stewardship proposals, which were developed through public
processes, and adopted by the ICANN Board and transmitted to NTIA on 10 March 2016.
The public comment process provides the community with an opportunity to comment on whether the drafted Bylaws are inconsistent with the proposals, and is not intended to be a forum for the reconsideration of the proposals.
Closes: 11 August 2016 at 23:59 UTC
In addition, ICANN has circulated to the community drafts of the ICANN-PTI contracts for review, including:
·
Draft
Naming Function Agreement
·
Draft
Number Subcontracting Agreement
·
Draft Protocol
Parameter Subcontracting Agreement
·
Draft ICANN-PTI
Intercompany Services Agreement headers
Documents/announcements posted:
Draft PTI Articles of Incorporation
Draft PTI Conflict of Interest Policy
Draft PTI Board Code of Conduct
Draft PTI Expected Standard of Behavior
Draft Naming Function Agreement
Draft Number Subcontracting
Agreement
Draft Protocol
Parameter Subcontracting Agreement
Draft ICANN-PTI
Intercompany Services Agreement Headers
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The Accountability Enhancements Planning track contains projects to plan for implementation of enhancements to ICANN’s Independent Review
and Reconsideration Request processes, to update ICANN’s governance documents, and to operationalize new community powers defined by the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability).
Status update:
The 40-day public comment period on ICANN’s Draft Restated Articles of Incorporation was extended by one week, and closed on 13 July 2016. In total, 6
submissions were received during the comment period.
ICANN staff is currently finalizing an analysis of the comments received.
Documents/announcements posted:
None.
Mailing list:
None.
Status update:
The CCWG-Accountability formed a Working Party called the IRP Implementation Oversight
Team (IOT)to define supplemental procedures for the enhanced IRP process defined by the CCWG-Accountability in its Work Stream 1 proposal.
The IOT has held 5 meetings and all resources and archives can be found here.
Documents/announcements posted:
None.
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