Friends and Colleagues, For those interested in IANA Functions Stewardship Transition, July 17—18 marks the kick-off of the first F2F meeting for the coordination group. They will be meeting in London during 8.00 – 17.00 UTC. Remote participation in 7 languages is available, and there is an online discussion forum and a dedicated mailing list as the below announcement states. Happy to address any questions you may have. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:17 PM Subject: ICANN News Alert -- IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Updates <http://www.icann.org/> ICANN News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en _____ IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Updates 16 July 2014 On 14 March 2014, the NTIA announced <http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-...> its intention to transition its stewardship role of IANA functions, and called upon ICANN to launch and facilitate a process with the community to derive a proposal to transition the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community, meeting the criteria set out by the NTIA. Following community dialogue, the process <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-06-06-en> for developing a proposal for this transition was posted on 6 June 2014. As a part of this process, a Coordination Group will be responsible for preparing a transitional proposal respective of the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions. See here for a full list of the Coordination Group Representatives <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/coordination-group-2014-06-17-en> . The first face-to-face meeting of the Coordination Group will take place in London from 08:00-17:00 UTC on 17-18 July at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel <http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/hilton-london-metropole-LONM...> . The global multistakeholder community will be able to follow the Coordination Group's first meeting through the Virtual Meeting Room <https://icann.adobeconnect.com/coordinationgroup/> and through audio translations into these languages: * English <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-en.m3u> * French <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-fr.m3u> * Spanish <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-es.m3u> * Chinese <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-zh.m3u> * Russian <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-ru.m3u> * Arabic <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-ar.m3u> * Portuguese <http://stream.icann.org:8000/coordinationgroup-pt.m3u> In addition, the community is encouraged to join the conversation through use of the online discussion forum <http://discuss-stewardship.icann.org/> or ICANN's dedicated IANA Transition mailing list <https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ianatransition> to discuss the transition process. For more information about the Coordination Group and the IANA Function's Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition microsite <https://www.icann.org/stewardship> . http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=942025&act=MI8Z&r=25971199&c=1...