Dear At-Large members, as you know, the ALAC has endorsed the selection of Mohamed El Bashir and Jean-Jacques Subrenat as its representatives on the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group. The Coordination Group will meet in London on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 July 2014. I would like to thank all of the candidates who sent their Expression of Interest to the Selection Committee. The choice was hard to make because all candidates had the qualities we were looking for in candidates - but the selected candidates were the most suitable for the task for various factors. I would also like to thank the members of the Selection Committee ( https://community.icann.org/x/QpDhAg ) for taking the time so soon after an ICANN meeting to read through all of the Expressions of Interest, debate on-line and actively take part in the conference call to make the final selection. Having corresponded with Mohamed and Jean-Jacques since their selection, they are booked to come to London and have read through all of the currently available data to be fully prepared for the two days. They have assured me that they are also reading other (non-ICANN) fora to be fully aware of the proposals and mood of the first meeting. I also invite you to read the IANA stewardship micro-site: https://www.icann.org/stewardship Now the work re: NTIA Functions starts for the ALAC and the At-Large Community. The Coordination Group is a group that will coordinate the work of all of the communities involved in the putting together of a proposal (or a set of proposals) for the replacement of the NTIA role in the stewardship of the IANA functions. This will need to be fed with the consensus positions of the At-Large Community - and we therefore need to work in our community to reach consensus on all of the points that will be raised. We might also need to think creatively to make proposals of our own. Most of all, we will have to, as a community, be very vigilant in making sure that proposals brought forward by the other stakeholders at the Coordination Group are fair and serve the public interest. Our "Ambassadors" Jean-Jacques & Mohamed will need to be our ears but also our voice in this Coordination Group and I hope that we will all be able to work closely with them. The ALAC has created an ad-hoc working group to focus on these issues and in order to keep our main mailing lists free from what is likely to be a high clutter of discussions, starting in the next few days. https://community.icann.org/x/OYThAg This working group and its mailing list is open for all At-Large members to join. You may join the mailing list through: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/iana-issues Its purpose will be to articulate the At-Large positions that will then be made available to our representatives on the Coordinating Group & other fora. There are other parallel threads that will take place simultaneously. One of them is the creation of a Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) on the IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition. This is in the process of being created by the various component organisations of ICANN. Leon Sanchez & Tijani Ben Jemaa are our current representatives helping with the drafting of the charter of this working group (with Julie Hammer, our SSAC Liaison also being part of the Charter Drafting Team). Once the Charter will be drafted, the ALAC will, like other component parts of ICANN, need to ratify it and then will need to send participants to the CCWG. I expect that in addition to Jean-Jacques and Mohamed whom I will encourage to join this group simply for them to be well aware of its work, we will need candidates to *drive* the values of our community in the CCWG. It is thought that the CCWG on IANA Functions will probably focus on a proposal for the stewardship of the "Names" function of IANA - but this is yet to be established or discussed. Aside from this process, there is also a process of an ICANN-wide ICANN accountability working group (currently in formation). In London, the Board has resolved to implement the Accountability & Transparency Review Team (ATRT2) recommendations and this working group is very likely to be a driving factor for a follow-up on ICANN accountability that is likely to exceed the limits of the ATRT2. As a reminder, the ATRT2 was limited in scope to the markers in the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC). So this new working group is likely to be very important indeed and I have already received emails from several of you who would like to take part in its deliberations. Question: How will we feed this ICANN-wide working group? By creating our own accountability working group or should we hand the work to one of our already established working groups? As of today, it is still unclear how the ICANN Accountability & the IANA Functions working groups will interface. I expect there will be an overlap in membership and there is likely to be a strong link between the two topics. Yet, they are taken as two separate threads, as I am told that both will require plenty of work. But I fully support that there should be strong communication and coordination between the two topics. The ICANN Accountability working group is a bit late on its original schedule and SO/AC Chairs have sent an email to the Staff person in charge of the process to obtain clarification on progress. Expect news in the next few days! If you are a little confused about all of these things happening at once, then please have a look at the diagram displayed on which can give you a better picture of how all of the working groups function together: How all the IANA Functions Stewardship and Accountability working groups relate to each other (PDF) <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48333881/ICANN%20working%20...> How all the IANA Functions Stewardship and Accountability working groups relate to each other (JPG) <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Ad-hoc+WG+on+the+Transi...> This is not meant to be a flow chart. It is not meant to be an accurate flow of information or how these groups will function. It is just an overall representation of how many groups there are, which ones are ICANN community only, which ones are At-Large, which ones are Internet-wide. Things have moved so quickly in the past few weeks that this diagram might soon be obsolete anyway, but hopefully we'll be able to understand more once the first meeting of the Coordination Group has taken place. Right now, think about joining the At-Large ad-hoc working group on https://community.icann.org/x/OYThAg I'll keep you all up to date as soon as we learn more about this exciting and historical process. Kindest regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair On 15/07/2014 15:31, ICANN At-Large Staff wrote:
Dear All,
The ALAC vote regarding the endorsement of ALAC Representatives to the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group has been completed, with 15 out of the 15 ALAC members casted their ballots.
*** QUESTION: Should the advice from the At-Large Sub-Committee on the Selection of Members for the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group <https://community.icann.org/x/QpDhAg> be accepted? The advice is as follows:
Factoring in a point scoring system (i.e. a straw ballot) based on applicants' Expression of Interest, discussion on the Sub-Committee's mailing list (iana-steering-sc@atlarge-lists.icann.org), and a conference call on 11 July 2014 to make the decision on the candidates, it is recommended that the ALAC endorse the following two (2) individuals as ALAC Representatives to the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group via immediate vote (in surname alphabetical order):
* Mohamed El Bashir * Jean-Jacques Subrenat
The recommendations are based on a high level of confidence that the two candidates: 1) are qualified to access the principles and mechanism for the transitioning of NTIA's stewardship of the IANA functions; 2) can work effectively as a team; 3) have the widest range of contacts, languages and experiences to engage the largest number of Coordination Group participants; and 4) can do so from the perspective/viewpoint of the ALAC, the At-Large Community, and the global Internet endusers.
Candidate Endorsement: NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group
As at Poll close: Tuesday 15 July 2014 11:51 UTC Number of voters: 15 · Group size: 15 · Percentage voted: 100.00 Ranked by votes *Rank* *Candidate* *Votes* *%* 1 Yes 14 93.33 2 Abstain 1 6.67 3 No 0 0.00
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To confirm: the ALAC has endorsed the selection of Mohamed El Bashir and Jean-Jacques Subrenat as the ALAC representatives to the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition Coordination Group.
You may review the results independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=41023PQdzrDKvXf4WQufWHjd
Regards,
Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff@atlarge.icann.org <mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge <https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge <https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>
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