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21 April 2016 - Draft New ICANN Bylaws Posted for 30-day Public Comment

Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en

Now that the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) proposals have been transmitted to NTIA, one of the key implementation planning items is to amend the ICANN Bylaws to reflect the recommendations in those Proposals. The proposed draft of the New ICANN Bylaws was developed collaboratively by the ICANN legal team and the independent counsel hired to advise the CCWG-Accountability and the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship). In developing the Draft New ICANN Bylaws, the attorneys consulted a Bylaws Coordination Group populated with both community and Board members, as well as with the CWG-Stewardship and the CCWG-Accountability.

Both the independent counsel to the community groups and ICANN's General Counsel have confirmed that the Draft New ICANN Bylaws are consistent with the community proposals relating to the IANA Stewardship Transition.

These proposed draft Bylaws, are out for a 30-day public comment from 21 April – 21 May to allow any interested party to review and provide feedback. This timeline allows for comments to be analyzed and incorporated in time for a tentative 27 May adoption of the Bylaws by the ICANN Board.

NTIA has stated that it needs to see that changes to the Bylaws have been adopted sufficient to implement the Transition Proposals before NTIA can complete its review of the Transition Proposals. This public comment period is designed to meet that deadline.

10 March 2016 - ICANN Board Transmits IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Recommendations to NTIA

Current status of Chartering Organization and CWG-Stewardship approvals or non-objections of the Supplemental Final Report

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• CWG-Stewardship (29 Feb 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/cwg-stewardship/2016-February/004756.html
• SSAC (2 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011606.html
• ASO (4 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011639.html
• ALAC (6 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011658.html
• GAC (9 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011676.html
• GNSO (9 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011694.html
• ccNSO (9 Mar 2016): http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011697.html

Important Information

4-10 March 2016 - ICANN55 in Marrakech, Morocco - see full schedule here and CCWG Accountability schedule here.

23 February 2016 - CCWG-Accountability provides Chartering Organizations Report on Work Stream 1 Recommendations  -  See full report here.

12 February 2016 - CCWG-Accountability Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations (for review) - may be viewed and downloaded here.

9 January 2016 - Summary and analysis of Public Comment and Survey submissions received on CCWG-ACCT Draft Proposal now available.

5 January 2016 - A CCWG-ACCT work plan to finalize the report is released - See Development of Final Report for discussion documents and associated calendar. 

To view a full list of upcoming meetings, see Meetings.

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