hi,

And those of us on the GNSO council will need to vote on this.

So it is important to know what folks think.

avri


On 12-Jun-15 20:39, Rafik Dammak wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> as you know we were discussing for months about the IANA stewardship
> transition and that took countless hours of volunteers time. here we
> reached the stage where the stage where the cross-community group from
> the names community is sending its final deliverable to chartering
> organization for approval.
> that will be one of the main topics during the ICANN meeting in Buenos
> Aires .
> please take time to read in the proposal, attached to the email and
> also going here https://community.icann.org/x/sJc0Aw to find several
> relevant material and the recording of webinars introducing the proposal.
>
> I want to thank NCSG members and representative in the working group
> who have to commit a lot of time there, arguing. defending positions,
> sharing updates and drafting NCSG comments. 
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> NCSG chair
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>
>
>  
>
> *For your Information*
>
> /Sent on behalf of CWG-Stewardship Chairs by support staff. /
>
>  
>
> To: CWG-Stewardship Chartering SOs and ACs
>
> The ALAC, ccNSO, GAC, GNSO, and SSAC
>
>  
>
> Dear SO and AC Chairs,
>
> *CWG-Stewardship proposed response to the ICG RFP the IANA Stewardship
> Transition*
>
> The Cross Community Working Group on Naming Related Functions
> (CWG-Stewardship) is pleased to provide its Chartering Organizations
> with its proposed response to the IANA Stewardship Transition
> Coordination Group (ICG) Request for Proposals on the IANA Stewardship
> Transition for your consideration and approval as per its Charter.
>
> The response is the result of extensive work by the CWG’s 19 members,
> 133 participants and a team of highly qualified legal advisors over
> the past year, which included over 100 calls or meetings, 2 public
> consultations and more than 4,000 email messages. It represents a
> carefully crafted balance between key requirements, specific legal
> advice, and significant compromises by all who participated and
> includes diligent attention to the input received through the Public
> Comment proceedings. The final proposal has received the consensus
> support of the CWG-Stewardship with no objections or minority
> statements recorded for Chartering Organization consideration.
>
> As noted in the CWG-Stewardship proposal itself, the proposal is
> significantly dependent and expressly conditioned on the
> implementation of ICANN-level accountability mechanisms proposed by
> the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability
> (CCWG-Accountability). The co-chairs of the CWG-Stewardship and the
> CCWG-Accountability have coordinated their efforts and the
> CWG-Stewardship is confident that the CCWG-Accountability
> recommendations, if implemented as expected, will meet the
> requirements that the CWG-Stewardship has previously communicated to
> the CCWG. If any element of these ICANN level accountability
> mechanisms is not implemented as contemplated by the CWG-Stewardship
> proposal, this proposal will require revision.
>
> We also note that there are certain implementation elements that will
> require further dialogue in the near future, including with the other
> operational communities, and these have been marked as such in the
> final proposal. Two specific issues are particularly important to
> highlight. One is the finalization of the service level expectations
> (SLEs), where the proposal includes a set of agreed principles between
> the CWG and IANA, but these remain to be finalized in the form of a
> mutually agreed set of SLEs. A detailed plan for this finalisation is
> being worked on and it is our view that this detail, whilst vitally
> important, does not impact on the substance of the proposal put to you
> for approval. The second issue entails the location of intellectual
> property rights and this needs further discussion with the other
> respondents to the ICG RFP and ICANN.
>
> As per the CWG-Stewardship’s Charter we now seek your approval to
> submit this final proposal to the ICG and ask you to consider this
> approval in accordance with your respective SO or AC rules and
> procedures by 25 June 2015 to meet the overall timing requirements
> which would allow the transition to proceed, noting that final
> approval is conditional on the approval of the CCWG-Accountability
> Work Stream 1 recommendations.
>
>  
>
> We will make ourselves, together with or other key contributors,
> available to you at the ICANN 53 meeting in Buenos Aires in order to
> answer any questions you may have and to explain any details of the
> proposal. For your information, further background documents as well
> as the slides, recordings and transcripts of recent webinars explain
> the details of the final proposal are available here:
> https://community.icann.org/x/sJc0Aw.
>
>  
>
> Should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to
> contact us.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Lise Fuhr & Jonathan Robinson
>
> /Co-Chairs, CWG-Stewardship/
>
>  
>
>  
>
>


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