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Ahead of the Council minutes, please find the resolutions passed by the GNSO Council at its meeting on Thursday, 4 September 2014.

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Council adopted a Charter for a Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions

Whereas,

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has requested that ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the IANA Functions and related root zone management.
On June 6 2014, ICANN proposed the creation of an IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) “responsible for preparing a transition proposal reflecting the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.”
It was determined that the transition proposal should be developed within the directly affected communities (i.e. the IETF for development of standards for Internet Protocol Parameters; the NRO, the ASO, and the RIRs for functions related the management and distribution of numbering resources; and the GNSO and ccNSO for functions related to the Domain Name System). These efforts would inform the work of the ICG, whose responsibility would be to fashion an overall integrated transition proposal from these autonomously developed components.
Following distribution of an invitation to participate, a drafting team (DT) was formed with participants from the ccNSO, GNSO, SSAC and ALAC to develop a charter for a Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions.
The DT delivered the proposed charter for consideration to the ccNSO, GNSO, SSACC and ALAC

Resolved,

The GNSO Council approves the Charter and appoints Jonathan Robinson as the GNSO Council liaison and member to the CWG.
Each GNSO Stakeholder Group will identify one member for the CWG by 15 September taking into account the charter requirement that best efforts should be made to ensure that members:

Have sufficient expertise to participate in the applicable subject matter;
Commit to actively participate in the activities of the CWG on an ongoing and long-term basis; and
Where appropriate, solicit and communicate the views and concerns of individuals in the organization that appoints them.

3. The GNSO will collaborate with the other SOs and ACs to issue a call for observers to join the CWG, each in accordance with its own rules.

4. Until the CWG selects its co-chairs for the CWG, the GNSO Council recommends that the co-chairs of the Drafting Team shall serve as the interim co-chairs of the CWG.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Kind regards,

Glen