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On 4 May, the Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability)
published its initial draft report on the elements of the ICANN accountability framework that it has identified as essential to happen, or be committed to, before the IANA Stewardship Transition takes place. This initial draft report will be open for public
comment for 30 days. Following community input during the comment period and at
ICANN 53
in Buenos Aires, the CCWG-Accountability will produce a second draft report for a 40-day public comment period in July.
The recommendations in the initial draft now out for comment are not presented as the consensus of the CCWG-Accountability. Instead, the CCWG-Accountability has published the draft
to solicit feedback from the community on the CCWG-Accountability’s approach as well as guidance on several options under consideration.
The CCWG-Accountability initial draft report is the fourth major community developed proposal to undergo public consultation as a part of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing
ICANN Accountability processes.
Comment on the draft report,
with
or without
annexes, by 3 June 2015, 23:59 UTC (convert
to your time zone):
mailto:mcomments-ccwg-accountability-draft-proposal-04may15@icann.org
To help better understand the contents and context of the draft proposal, you may wish to join one of the
two following webinars
live:
The webinars will also be transcribed and published from
this CCWG-Accountability webpage
in the six UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
Below is a summary of upcoming key meetings and processes specifically related to Work Stream 1 draft report and its interactions with the naming related portion of the IANA Stewardship
Transition proposal. A list of dates associated with a wider range of stewardship transition related activities is included near the end of this report.
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4 May 2015 |
The
CCWG-Accountability halts work on draft Work Stream 1 accountability enhancements.
Work Stream 2 accountability work continues. |
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20 May 2015 |
Last day for
community comments on the CWG-Stewardship second draft proposal. |
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1 Jun 2015 |
ICANN staff publishes report of public comments on the CWG-Stewardship’s second draft
proposal. |
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3 Jun 2015 |
Last day for
community comments on the ICANN accountability enhancements (Work Stream 1). |
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4-29 Jun 2015 |
ICANN staff compiles a report of the public comments received on CCWG-Accountability’s
draft report on Work Stream 1-related ICANN accountability enhancements. |
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5-18 Jun 2015 |
The CCWG-Accountability reviews public comments on Work Stream 1 accountability enhancements and prepares documents
for ICANN 53 briefings with the community. |
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8 Jun 2015 |
The
CWG-Stewardship presents revised version of its proposal to their chartering members (Supporting Organizations and Advisory Councils) for review and adoption. |
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8-25 Jun 2015 |
ALAC, ccNSO, GAC and GNSO
review and consider adoption of CWG-Stewardship’s revised proposal. |
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19 Jun 2015 |
The
CCWG-Accountability meets for working session before
ICANN 53. |
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21-25 Jun 2015 |
All ICANN communities and other parties interested in IANA
meet during
ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires, and online
via remote participation, to discuss the IANA stewardship transition in a number of cross-community as well as stakeholder-specific sessions.
(See
preliminary schedule). |
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25 Jun 2015 |
The
CWG-Stewardship delivers the final proposal on the naming related portion of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). |
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20 Jul 2015 |
The
CCWG-Accountability publishes second, revised, version of draft report on Work Stream 1 accountability enhancements for public comment. |
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29 Aug 2015 |
Last day for
community comments on the second draft of ICANN accountability enhancements (Work Stream 1). |
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30 Sep-15 Oct 2015 |
ALAC, ASO, ccNSO, GAC and GNSO
review and consider adoption of CCWG-Accountability’s revised proposal. |
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22 Oct 2015 |
The
CCWG-Accountability present Work Stream 1 accountability enhancements report to the
ICANN Board. |
On 30 April, the chairs of IETF, IAOC and IAB
notified
members of IANAPLAN
of the status of work between IETF and ICANN regarding the annual SLA or Supplemental Agreement to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between IETF and ICANN in relation to IANA’s performance of the protocol parameters function. Following that notification,
there was much discussion on the IANAPLAN mailing list
about the possible reasons behind ICANN’s communication to IETF that it believed that agreeing to the proposed text of the SLA would possibly put ICANN in breach of its existing agreement with the NTIA. The discussion was
forwarded
on to the CWG-Stewardship mailing list and, in response, ICANN clarified
that the concerns it had expressed were not related to the proposed stewardship model for the protocol parameters function of IANA after the expiration of ICANN’s contract with NTIA, but were specifically related to constraints that applied
solely while the current contract with NTIA remained in place. ICANN expressed it did not want to pre-empt or create a perception of pre-empting any of the community consensus process around any areas in the finalization of the transition. A further email
was posted
to the CCWG-Accountability list by a member of the ICANN Board containing more information on the MoU and the process IETF can invoke to terminate the agreement.
As a result of the
CRISP Team’s draft proposal for the numbers
component of the IANA functions, the Number Resource Organization (NRO)
has produced a Draft Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA Numbering Services.
The draft SLA, which has not been reviewed by the CRISP Team nor negotiated with any other parties, including ICANN, is
available for comment
until 14 June 2015. Comments received are archived on the NRO’s ianaxfer mailing list.
The
ICG has announced that it has published
its final process
for how it will handle comments sent by members of the community to the ICG forum.
Comments may be directly submitted to the ICG any time via icg-forum@ianacg.org.
In response to the SLA-related discussions described in the sections above, the ICG has posted
a statement on its homepage that encourages all
interested parties, including ICANN staff and Board members, to participate within the open, transparent processes being used by the three operational communities to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions away from NTIA. Board Chair, Steve Crocker,
issued a response.
The ICG has also created Twitter
and Facebook
accounts to assist with disseminating information about their activities.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has written to the chairs of the ICG and CCWG-Accountability requesting information on projected dates related
to completing the transition proposal, as well as the estimated time to implement the transition, to assist the NTIA in planning for the transition. The NTIA has requested this information be communicated by the end of June.
On 13 May, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing titled
Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to
Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet's Operation. ICANN
submitted written testimony for the record.
Later that afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a separate hearing titled,
Stakeholder Perspectives on the IANA
Transition. ICANN also submitted
written testimony for the record
in that hearing.
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14 May 2015 |
CWG-Stewardship Meeting #47, 11:00-13:00 UTC |
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19 May 2015 |
CCWG-Accountability Meeting #33,
6:00-8:00 UTC |
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21 May 2015 |
CWG-Stewardship Meeting #49, 11:00-13:00 UTC |
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26 May 2015 |
CCWG-Accountability Meeting #34,
12:00-14:00 UTC |
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28 May 2015 |
CWG-Stewardship Meeting #51, 11:00-13:00 UTC |
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28-29 May 2015 |
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2 Jun 2015 |
CWG-Stewardship Meeting #52,
17:00-19:00 UTC |
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4 Jun 2015 |
CWG-Stewardship Meeting #53, 11:00-13:00 UTC |
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14 Jun 2015 |
Deadline for comments
to NRO on Draft Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA Numbering Services |
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18-19 Jun 2015 |
ICG Face-to-Face Meeting,
ICANN 53, Buenos Aires, all day |
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19 Jun 2015 |
CCWG-Accountability Working Session 1,
ICANN 53, Buenos Aires, all day |
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21-25 Jun 2015 |
ICANN 53, Buenos Aires |
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7 May 2015 |
Dot What? The surprisingly
interesting history of the Internet domain system, Slate [EN] |
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6 May 2015 |
专访张建川解读ICANN互联网管理权移交建议草案内容,
Sohu.com [CN] |
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5 May 2015 |
Le Burkina veut participer aux instances de la gouvernance mondiale de
l’internet, Burkina24 [FR] |
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4 May 2015 |
Internet in Ghana not controlled – Omane Boamah,
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation [EN] |
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28 April 2015 |
ICANN ABRE NOVA CONSULTA SOBRE TRANSIÇÃO DE FUNÇÕES IANA, Tele Síntese [PT] |
Anyone can participate in discussions about the future of IANA’s stewardship and ICANN accountability.
For information on joining
CWG-Stewardship, contact
grace.abuhamad@icann.org.
For information on joining
CCWG-Accountability, contact
accountability-staff@icann.org.
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org