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Blogs
IANA Stewardship Transition Planning Update (Volume 2) | 10 May 2016
- IANA Stewardship Transition Planning Update (Volume 1) | 27 April 2016
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 10 May 2016
Original Post: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/ccwgiana-accountabilitystewardship-deliverstransition-reportplanning-toupdate-charteringvolume-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.
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:
- Monthly Report on RZMS Parallel Testing Progress
- Verisign’s daily Parallel Operations Root Zone Management System Comparison Reports
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):
- http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/bylaws-coord/
- http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/
- http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/
- http://mm.ianacg.org/pipermail/internal-cg_ianacg.org/
CCWG-Accountability co-Chairs
