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Most Recent Blog Update 

Joining the Global Discussion at ICANN 52

With ICANN's 52nd Public Meeting taking place this week in Singapore, I wanted to highlight the numerous opportunities to get involved in the conversation on the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability processes. To date, the community has logged more than 90 public calls or meetings, over 5,200 working hours and some 10,000 email exchanges during the various stages of proposal development necessary to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community.

Alissa Cooper, Chair of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), published a well-received opinion piece during which she says, "The efforts of the individuals in each of the operational communities have been nothing short of extraordinary." I couldn't agree more.

The numbers reflect the hard work and dedication that has gone into this transition, but we still have a long way to go.

IANA Stewardship Transition

January 15th was the target date for each operational community of the IANA functions to submit a transition proposal as requested by the ICG. Each community was asked to assess their use of the IANAfunctions with a description of those functions, their existing arrangements, propose post-transition oversight and accountability arrangements and any transition implications.

The Protocol Parameters and Numbering communities met the target date, while the Naming community made good progress but continues its work.

One of reasons for missing the target date is due to the interdependence of the Cross Community Working Group on IANA Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship) interdependence with the work of the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability). The Chairs of both working groups created a schematic illustration of this interrelation with a flowchart that can be found here [PDF, 154 KB].

The ICG has begun its initial assessments of the protocol parameters and naming community proposals both over its publicly archived mailing list and at its two-day face-to-face meeting in Singapore on 6-7 February. In addition, members are working on an updated anticipated timeline to reflect the extended amount of time the CWG-Stewardship needs to complete its proposal.

Enhancing ICANN Accountability

Meanwhile, the CCWG-Accountability held a two-day meeting in Frankfurt, Germany on 19-20 January, attended by more than 50 members and participants with an additional 40 participants and observers attending remotely. The meeting was considered to be a success, leading to an initial agreement on a problem statement, a list of "stress tests" and requirements for Work Stream 1 – those accountability measures necessary to complete the IANA stewardship transition.

Since the meeting, the group has created two new Work Parties to further organize the dialogues of Work Stream 1.

  • Work Party 1: Community Empowerment
  • Work Party 2: Review & Redress

The working group is currently recruiting members and participants for each Work Party, and will continue its discussions further in Singapore.

Lastly, the Public Experts Group (PEG), tasked with selecting up to 7 external Advisors to the CCWG-Accountability selected the last  Advisor to join the working group. Lee Andrew Bygrave will join the discussions of the CCWG-Accountability as an expert in International Law/Jurisprudence.

ICANN 52

In addition to an Informational Session on Sunday evening in Singapore, the ICG, CWG-Stewardship and CCWG-Accountability will be hosting several individual sessions at ICANN 52. Here's the list:

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All of these sessions will be live-streamed, and non-working session meetings will also be interpreted into the six UN languages plus Portuguese. So whether you have the opportunity to join us in Singapore or want to engage in the discussions from home, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved.

You can also follow along with all of these discussions through the ICANN twitter (@ICANN), where we will be live-tweeting many of the events.

I am confident that our community will come out even stronger at the end of this undertaking. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling reinforced at the State of the Net Conference in Washington D.C. last month, "We all have a stake in this transition and in ensuring the Internet remains an open, dynamic platform for economic and social progress." Remember, it's never too late to have your voice heard.

Safe travels to everyone coming to Singapore, and be ready to work!

Date:  10 May 2016
Original Post:  https://www.icann.org/news/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-planning-update-volume-2

 

IANA Stewardship Transition Planning Update (Volume 2)
 

Root Zone Management

The Root Zone Management implementation planning track contains projects relating to changes to the Root Zone Management System (RZMS) to remove NTIA's authorization role, parallel testing of the production and parallel test RZMS systems; and the development, and execution of an agreement with Verisign as the root zone maintainer.

Root Zone Management System (RZMS) Parallel Testing

Status update:

It has been one month since the start of the parallel testing period and everything continues to go smoothly. Click here to view Verisign’s daily Parallel Operations Root Zone Management System Comparison Reports of all the root zone files generated.

In addition to Verisign’s daily reports, ICANN has posted the first of three Monthly Reports on RZMS Parallel Testing Progress during the testing period. The report is available on ICANN’s dedicated Parallel Testing landing page.

In the event that no unexplained differences in root zone files are identified between the production RZMS and the parallel test RZMS, the testing period will end successfully on 5 July 2016.

Documents/announcements posted:

Mailing list:

  • None.

Root Zone Maintainer Agreement (RZMA)

Status update:

Discussions between ICANN and Verisign to finalize details of the RZMA are continuing. The two parties have coalesced around many key elements of the agreement and hope to have a final draft by the end of the month.

Once the draft RZMA is finalized it will be made publicly available on icann.org.

Documents/announcements posted:

  • None.

Mailing list(s):

  • None.

 

Stewardship Transition

The Stewardship Transition planning track contains projects to prepare relationship documentation with the operational communities, creation of a Post-Transition IANA (PTI) entity, establishment of a Customer Standing Committee (CSC) and a Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC), operationalizing the IANA customer service escalation mechanisms and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Post-Transition IANA (PTI)

Status update:

ICANN has been working with the Implementation Oversight Task Force (IOTF) on various activities relating to the PTI. Summaries of PTI formation documents (Bylaws, articles of incorporation) as well as the conflict of interest policy have been shared with the IOTF.  ICANN continues to work with the IOTF to finalize the process and timing of review for these documents as well as for the ICANN-PTI contracts.

Documents/announcements posted this week:

  • None.

Mailing list(s):

Customer Standing Committee (CSC)

Status update:

In the CWG-Stewardship proposal, the Domain Names community recommended that a CSC be formed to replace NTIA’s role as it relates to monitoring performance of the IANA naming function. The composition of the CSC will include members and liaisons from all ICANN Supporting Organizations(SOs) and Advisory Committees (ACs).

A Request for Appointment is expected to be sent to SOs and ACs this month to appoint members and liaisons to the CSC using their internal processes.

Documents/announcements posted this week:

  • None.

Mailing list(s):

Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC)

Status update:

The RZERC Charter (v4) was circulated to the CWG-Stewardship on 4 May 2016. The CWG-Stewardship will discuss the Charter on their 12 May 2016 call, and members and participants of the group are encouraged to provide any comment by 23:59 UTC on 17 May 2016.

Following analysis and incorporation of any input received from the CWG-Stewardship, ICANN will post the Charter for a 30-day public comment period.

Documents/announcements:

Mailing list(s):

 

Accountability Enhancements

The Accountability Enhancements track contains plans to implement enhancements to ICANN’s Independent Review and Reconsideration Request processes, to update ICANN’s governance documents, and to operationalize new community powers defined by the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability).

ICANN's Bylaws

Status update:

ICANN and the community are in the middle of a 30-day public comment period on the new draft ICANNBylaws. Any interested party can submit comments to the public comment forum until 23:59 UTC on 21 May 2016. 

Adoption of the new Bylaws by the ICANN Board is anticipated for on or around 27 May 2016. Once new ICANN Bylaws have been adopted, ICANN will notify NTIA so they can complete their anticipated 90-day review of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal.

Documents/announcements:

Mailing list(s):

-TS