Dear All,

The RFP5 sub-group had the first meeting Friday December 12. Cheryl Langdon-Orr volunteered to be coordinator for the group, and Avri Doria will be the liaison between this group and RFP3 and RFP4. Since this group only has 5 people listed as members (Avri hasn’t signed up yet but was on the call.) – we urge some more of you to join the group. Please send an email to Grace Abuhamad grace.abuhamad@icann.org if you want to be a part of the RFP5 sub-group.

The assignment of RFP5 is to describe how the proposal meet the requirement from NTIA – you can see this below.

“V. NTIA Requirements

Additionally, NTIA has established that the transition proposal must meet the following five requirements:

· Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;

· Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;

· Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the IANA functions;

· Maintain the openness of the Internet;

· The proposal must not replace the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.

This section should explain how your community’s proposal meets these requirements and how it responds to the global interest in the IANA functions.

Note: CWG-RFP3 and 4 should have considered this in their work and this should only be a final sanity check to produce the text confirming this requirement once 3 and 4 are completed.”

Best regards,

Lise