[Ianaplan] Fwd: For your Information: CWG-Stewardship Response for Chartering Organization Consideration and Approval

["Marc Blanchet" <[e-mail]>]

Hello,
  FYI. (and please read Grace’s caveat below that this document is 
pending approval).

Regards, Marc.

Forwarded message:

> From: Grace Abuhamad <[e-mail]>
> To: Marc Blanchet <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Leslie Daigle (ThinkingCat) <[e-mail]>, Izumi 
> Okutani <[e-mail]>, Nurani Nimpuno <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: For your Information: CWG-Stewardship Response for 
> Chartering Organization Consideration and Approval
> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:57:34 +0000
>
> Hi Marc,
> There is no issue for you to forward to your communities. To avoid
> confusion, please note that the document is pending approval from the
> Chartering Organizations and has not yet been submitted to the ICG. 
> Also,
> I have a link with the Word and PDF versions that may be easier for 
> some
> to access (since the file is quite large for some email and mailing
> lists): <https://community.icann.org/x/aJ00Aw>
> Best,
> Grace
>
> On 6/15/15, 10:49 AM, "Marc Blanchet" <[e-mail]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Grace,
>> is there any issue for us to forward your email to our communities?
>>
>> Regards, Marc.
>>
>> On 15 Jun 2015, at 10:40, Grace Abuhamad wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Marc and Leslie, and Izumi and Nurani,
>>> On behalf of the CWG-Stewardship Chairs, I¹m forwarding you the 
>>> final
>>> proposal submitted to Chartering Organizations for approval. The 
>>> goal
>>> is to
>>> receive approval and submit to the ICG by 25 June.
>>> Best,
>>> Grace
>>>
>>> From:  Grace Abuhamad <[e-mail]>
>>> Date:  Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 10:53 AM
>>> To:  Alan Greenberg <[e-mail]>, Byron Holland
>>> <[e-mail]>, "[e-mail]"
>>> <[e-mail]>, Jonathan Robinson
>>> <[e-mail]>, Patrik Fältström <[e-mail]>
>>> Cc:  Lise Fuhr <[e-mail]>, Theresa Swinehart
>>> <[e-mail]>, Bart Boswinkel
>>> <[e-mail]>,
>>> Marika Konings <[e-mail]>, Bernard Turcotte
>>> <[e-mail]>
>>> 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 CWG¹s 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-Stewardship¹s 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
>>> <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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [FinalTransitionProposal_11June.docx]