[npoc-voice] Important week

[Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick@xxxxxxx>]

Dear NPOC member,

This week several meetings are ongoing in Istanbul (Turkey) all related to the 
IANA transition. 
The cross community working group is coming together in Istanbul in order to 
work through the different proposals.

Thursday 26 March 2015
07:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
09:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
12:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
14:30 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
 
Friday 27 March 2015
07:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
09:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
12:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>
14:30 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship  https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 
<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg>

On the ICANN blog you can find a very good overview of the process, written by 
Theresa Swinehart :

Last Saturday, March 14th, marked the one-year anniversary of the NTIA's 
announcement of its intent to transfer its stewardship of the IANA functions to 
the Internet's global multistakeholder community. In the year since, the work 
and dedication shown by the stakeholders all over the world to develop a 
transition proposal has been impressive. Yet, I get questions all of the time 
asking, "What is going on now? Where's the proposal?"

Like many of you, I'm following these processes everyday – whether it's 
responding to emails, participating in calls or meeting around the world to 
raise awareness and discuss both the transition and work to enhance ICANN's 
accountability with stakeholders, and to support the community's engagement. Of 
course, not everyone is so deeply involved, and the work of the 
multistakeholder groups can be sometimes be complicated; its progress not 
always tangible. But what has occurred since the March announcement is 
remarkable and is a demonstration of the community working together to achieve 
this historical milestone.

So what has occurred – it's worth taking a step back to highlight what has been 
accomplished:

The community has developed and is deep into two parallel processes:

The IANA Stewardship Transition, focused on delivering a proposal to transition 
the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community; and
Enhancing ICANN Accountability, focused on ensuring that ICANN remains 
accountable absent its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. 
Government.
To drive these processes, the community created multilayered, transparent, and 
diverse working groups to foster discussion and, within those groups, develop 
working methods and systems for determining consensus. Representatives from 
more than 50 countries and the global business community are working together 
to contribute to the discussion.

With some help from our friends in the working groups, SO/AC leadership and 
internal staff support for the transition we have calculated that as of March 
14th 2015:

Calls and Meetings: The working groups have held over 115 group calls and 6 
face-to-face meetings. The time in these calls and meetings totals over 245 
hours, and that does not include the countless hours of drafting, prep calls, 
document finalization, public comment assessment and information sharing.

Mailing List Exchanges: The working groups have exchanged over 12,446 emails 
through the more than 30 publicly archived community mailing lists dedicated to 
discussions of the transition and accountability processes.

Global Discussions: ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement team and ICANN 
leadership have participated in an estimated 219 events around the world, 
building awareness among diverse stakeholders and discussing the intricacies of 
the transition. Its important to note that this number does not count 
attendance for webinars, multiple sessions conducted at one event, nor events 
that ICANN staff was unable to attend.

It's apparent there is no shortage of effort dedicated to this significant 
undertaking. So let me again thank everyone involved in these processes, 
including those supporting them within ICANN and in the broader Internet 
community. We could not do it without you!

As NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling recently said, "I think the IANA 
transition, by being the most direct and concrete demonstration of the 
multistakeholder model at work on a difficult issue that engages everybody in 
the community, whether they come from the United States or any other part of 
the world, whether they come from business or civil society or from the 
technical community, is the absolute best demonstration we can make that this 
is a powerful process, that it delivers outcomes, and that it is a model that 
we all should aspire to and protect."

Yes, our community is in a fishbowl – all eyes are on us, watching to see if 
the multistakeholder model works.  NTIA is confident, I am confident and you 
should be confident too that, together, we will meet this test. We will achieve 
our historical goal.

-TS


As one of the members of this process I wanted to keep you informed on the 
process as well as the meetings going on on weekly basis.

Rudi Vansnick
Chair Non-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC)
www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org/>

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