Tx you, James, and tx to all the members of NCSG who worked so long and 
hard on this proposal!
Kathy

On 6/11/2015 12:45 PM, James Gannon wrote:
>
> CWG Proposal has been submitted to the chartering organizations for 
> approval!
>
> Congrats to all the NCSG members who have been working on this for the 
> last year or so.
>
> -James
>
> *From:* [log in to unmask] 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Grace Abuhamad
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:17 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [CWG-Stewardship] CONGRATS! Proposal Submitted to 
> Chartering Orgs!
> *Importance:* High
>
> Dear all,
>
> Below is the message sent to Chartering Organizations to submit the 
> proposal. For the CWG, I’ve attached the redline version as well, so 
> that you can track all the changes made.
>
> Congratulations to all!
>
> *From: *Grace Abuhamad <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 10:53 AM
> *To: *Alan Greenberg <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Byron Holland 
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, 
> "[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>" 
> <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Jonathan Robinson 
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Patrik 
> Fältström <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *Cc: *Lise Fuhr <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, 
> Theresa Swinehart <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Bart Boswinkel 
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Marika 
> Konings <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, 
> Bernard Turcotte <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *Subject: *CWG-Stewardship Response for Chartering Organization 
> Consideration and Approval
>
> /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/
>