All, My update on the ccwg-ig is attached and listed below. - kind regards, - Young-eum Lee ************************************************** *Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance * *(ccwg-ig) Report* Young-eum Lee. August 17, 2015 *1. **ICANN relationships* - GAC has decided not to join this group as a chartering organization but group has invited interested individuals. *2. **WSIS+10 Review HL Meeting Related Activities* 1) Preparatory process for the UN GA High-level Meeting on Overall WSIS+10 Review. - ICANN participated in the First Preparatory Meeting of Member States (UNGA) on July 1 & the informal interactive WSIS Stakeholder Consultations on July 2 in New York. - ICANN staff assessment was that relatively successful diverse expression of views was possible. 2) Contributions to a UN (DESA) ‘Non-paper’ that will be developed into the final Outcome Document for for the December UNGA WSIS+10 HL Meeting. - ICANN has submitted its responses before the July 31st deadline. - 61 submissions from governments, civil society, technical and academia, private sector, and Intergovernmental Organizations - The Russian submission that proposed to ‘gradually’ transfer ICANN role to UN was highlighted - The first draft of the Outcome Document is expected at the end of September 3) Discussion on analysis of the contributions to the ‘non-paper’. - It was proposed that it would be a useful exercise for the group to analyze the submissions along certain dimensions such as ‘IGF’ mandate, ‘ICANN’ reference, etc. - Discussions regarding the list of dimensions to be analyzed will be discussed during the August 19 meeting of the ccwg-ig Young-eum Lee Dept. of Media Arts & Sciences <http://mas.knou.ac.kr/>, Korea National Open University <http://www.knou.ac.kr/> Dept. of Media Arts and Visual Contents <http://macgrad.knou.ac.kr/>, KNOU Grad School <http://grad.knou.ac.kr/> ICANN <http://www.icann.org/> ccNSO <http://ccnso.icann.org/> Council member <http://ccnso.icann.org/council-members.htm>