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Building an Enhanced, Community Empowered ICANN | by Akram Atallah | 12 April 2016
CCWG-Accountability Delivers Report to Chartering Organizations | by CCWG Accountability Co-Chairs | 23 February 2016
CCWG-Accountability: On the road to Marrakech, Part 2 | by Aarti Bhavana | 12 February 2016
Leading into Marrakech: An Update from the CCWG-Accountability co-Chairs | 2 February 2016
CCWG-Accountability: On the road to Marrakech, Part 1 by Aarti Bhavana | 2 February 2016
IANA: Keeping The Ultimate Objective In Mind by Kathryn Brown | 20 January 2016
Significant Changes in Third Proposal on Enhancements to ICANN Accountability by Matthew Shears | 3 December 2015
- CCWG-Accountability Issues Formal Update on Progress Made In and After ICANN54 in Dublin by CCWG Accountability co-Chairs | 15 November 2015
- Post ICANN54: A Glimpse into the 3rd Accountability Proposal by Aarti Bhavana | 5 November 2015
- Governments v. ICANN: The Last Battle Before the IANA Transition by Arun Mohan Sukumar | 27 October 2015
Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi by Aarti Bhavana | 23 October
- Strange but familiar in Dublin by Jari Arkko and Andrew Sullivan | 21 October 2015
- CCWG-Accountability co-Chairs Statement Leading into ICANN54 in Dublin by CCWG co-Chairs | 14 October 2015
- Dublin and Transition by Steve Crocker | 13 October 2015
- Rx for Dublin Progress: Board Transparency, Specificity, and Community Acknowledgement by Philip Corwin | 13 October 2015
- Increasing Community Discussions on Enhancing ICANN Accountability at ICANN54 by Nick Tomasso | 12 October 2015
- Hopes for Dublin by Jordan Carter | 12 October 2015
- ICANN Accountability - the chronology and Dublin thoughts by Jordan Carter | 8 October 2015
- IANA Transition, ICANN Accountability, "Has Always Been About POWER" by John Poole | 1 October 2015
- Get on with it! Uncle Sam's right-hand man schools ICANN powwow by Kieren McCarthy | 26 September 2015
- Here, near the shore of Santa Monica, we see ICANN in its natural habitat – doing nothing by Kieren McCarthy | 25 September 2015
- NTIA Directs Smoke Signals Toward LA by Philip Corwin | 24 September 2015
- China (CAICT) Objects to ICANN CCWG Accountability 2nd Draft Proposal by John Poole | 24 September 2015
- Thoughts Heading into Los Angeles by Steve Crocker | 24 September 2015
- ICANN Accountability Enhancements Key in Moving IANA Transition Forward by Matthew Shears | 24 September 2015
- The Empire Strikes Back: ICANN Accountability at the Inflection Point by Philip Corwin | 23 September 2015
- Reflections on the IANA Stewardship Transition Process by Larry Strickling | 23 September 2015
- THE MYTH OF THE NEW GTLD BOTTOM UP MULTISTAKEHOLDER PROCESS by Avri Doria | 18 September 2015
- Building Momentum: An Update from the CCWG-Accountability co-Chairs | 18 September 2015
- ICANN Board Submits Final Comments to CCWG-Accountability Public Comment by Steve Crocker | 11 September 2015
- Upcoming Comments from the ICANN Board to the ICG and CCWG-Accountability by Steve Crocker | 7 September 2015
- Working Together Through The Last Mile by Steve Crocker | 3 September 2015
- The Latest Update on the Board's Review of the CCWG Proposal by Steve Crocker | 28 August 2015
- The IANA Transition: The Work Ahead | 27 August 2015
- Updating our Community on our Review of the CCWG-Accountability Proposal | 26 August 2015
- IANA Contract Extension The Right Thing to Do | 18 August 2015
- An Update on NTIA's Announcement to Extent IANA Functions Contract | 18 August 2015
- An Update on the IANA Transition by Larry Strickling | 17 August 2015
- Speak Up on the IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability | 7 August 2015
- An Update on IANA Stewardship Discussions | 7 August 2015
- Let Your Voice be Heard on IANA Transition by Larry Strickling | 4 August 2015
- Additional Coordination Through New Transition Facilitation Calls | 16 July 2015
- The CCWG: From Buenos Aires to Paris to Dublin | 15 July 2015
- ICANN accountability, IANA stewardship - what's at stake? | 15 July 2015
- Three key issues for ICANN's Accountability Working Group | 15 July 2015
- Joining the Global Discussion at ICANN 52 | 7 February 2015
- December Monthly Update | 18 December 2015
- October-November Monthly Update | 17 November 2014
- Evaluation of the Enhancing ICANN Accountability Comment Period | 6 October 2014
- September Monthly Update | 26 September 2014
- August Monthly Update | 8 August 2014
Most Recent Blog Update
Date: 23 February 12 April 2016
Original Post: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/ccwgbuilding-accountabilityan-deliversenhanced-reportcommunity-toempowered-chartering-organizations
CCWG-Accountability Delivers Report to Chartering Organizations
Today, the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) provided its Chartering Organizations with its final supplemental report on Work Stream 1 recommendations.
[You can download the full report here]
The report is the result of extensive work by the CCWG-Accountability’s 28 members, 175 participants and a team of highly qualified legal advisors since December 2014, which included over 221 calls or meetings, 3 public consultations and more than 13,900 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.
While the report is final at this stage, an additional opportunity will be provided for CCWG-Accountability members to revise, retract or add minority statements to the final report. Located in Appendix A, minority statements will be updated and released on 25 February.
We will make ourselves available, together with or other key contributors, to the Chartering Organizations before and during the ICANN55 meeting in Marrakech to answer any questions and explain any details of the report. Background documents, slides, recordings and transcripts of recent webinars that explain the details of the report are available here.
The CCWG-Accountability leadership team would like to thank everyone for taking part in this historic process to redefine ICANN’s accountability to the multistakeholder community. This work entailed significant time and attention from each of the CCWG-Accountability volunteers and staff who have been dedicated to the development of this report.
We look forward to hearing from our Chartering Organizations and are optimistic we will be able to send the approved final supplemental report to the ICANN Board for transmission to NTIA in Marrakech.
The submission of the IANA Stewardship Transition Package to the U.S. Government last month marked the end of an impressive proposal development effort by the global multistakeholder community. It also marked the beginning of the next, intense period of work, to ensure that the proposals can be implemented in a timely manner if they’re accepted.
We’ve seen significant progress since the submission, with a great deal of focus for ICANN and the community on updating ICANN’s Bylaws. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said they need to see adoption of any changes to ICANN’s Bylaws before they can complete their anticipated 90-day review. To meet this aggressive timeline, immediately following the ICANN55 meeting in Marrakech, a drafting team was formed consisting of ICANN’s legal team and the two external law firms involved with the Community Working Group (CWG-Stewardship) and Cross Community Working Group (CCWG-Accountability).
The drafting team is working closely with representatives of all the involved community groups and theICANN Board to ensure that the updated Bylaws accurately reflect the recommendations in the IANAStewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and the CCWG-Accountability proposals. Consistent with the current timeline, we will post the new draft Bylaws for a 30-day public comment period on 20 April 2016, with tentative adoption by 27 May. The Bylaws will only become effective upon the successful completion of the transition.
We are also continuing our joint planning efforts to remove NTIA’s administrative role from the root zone management system (outlined in my recent blog update), and as announced last week, ICANN and Verisign are currently undertaking a 90-day “parallel testing” period of the Root Zone Management System (RZMS). The parallel testing period is part of the proposal that ICANN and Verisign submitted toNTIA in August 2015.
Additionally, we hope to complete two other critical agreements this month – the Service Level Agreement with the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR) and the Memorandum of Understanding Supplemental Agreement with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). We will make the drafts of these agreements available for a 30-day public review period prior to ICANN Board consideration.
To keep everyone informed on all these strands of planning, we will start publishing weekly updates on icann.org beginning next week. I encourage anyone who’s interested in the transition’s implementation details to check back for those updates.
There are 25 weeks left until the end of the current term of the IANA Functions contract with NTIA. We clearly have a lot of work to do as an organization and a community to be fully prepared, but the end goal of an enhanced, community empowered, independent ICANN, is well within sight.
Thomas, Mathieu, LeónCCWG-Accountability co-Chairs