[council] WEBINAR: CWG-Stewardship Briefing on 2nd Draft Proposal for Public Comment

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-04-16-en


WEBINAR: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) On IANA Naming Related Functions: 
Briefing on 2nd Draft Proposal for Public Comment
Why this matters

NTIA Stewardship Transition

Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, for ICANN 
to "convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. 
government stewardship role" with regard to the IANA Functions and related root 
zone management, a Cross Community Working Group (CWG-Stewardship) was formed 
with the purpose of developing a consolidated transition proposal for the 
elements of the IANA Functions relating to domain names.

The CWG-Stewardship held briefing webinars on the first draft proposal on 3-4 
December 2014, and subsequently received nearly 60 public comments. Following 
the close of the public comment period, the CWG-Stewardship reviewed the 
comments and continued to work at an intense pace to prepare its transition 
proposal, through more than 30 teleconferences, a working session at ICANN 52 
in Singapore in February, a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul in March and, most 
recently, during a two-day meeting block with over 12 hours of conferences to 
converge on the 2nd draft proposal.

With the aim to submit its final proposal to the IANA Stewardship Transition 
Coordination Group (ICG) by the close of ICANN 53 in June, the CWG-Stewardship 
highlights the importance of broader community input of their draft, for which 
the group has received independent legal counsel for structural considerations 
and external expertise to bolster operational sections.

The CWG-Stewardship will hold two identical webinars at different times to 
facilitate participation across time zones. The webinars will take place on:
·        24 April from 06:00 - 07:30 UTC (time zone converter 
here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CWG-Stewardship+Webinar&iso=20150424T06&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30>)
·        24 April from 14:00 - 15:30 UTC (time zone converter 
here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CWG-Stewardship+Webinar&iso=20150424T14&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30>)
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Webinar Details & How to Attend

The webinars will be run in an Adobe Connect 
room<https://icann.adobeconnect.com/cwg-iana/>. If you are interested in 
attending the webinar and would like to receive dial-in details, please send an 
email to brenda.brewer@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:brenda.brewer@xxxxxxxxx> and indicate 
which time you would like to attend the webinar. Please note that the webinar 
will be conducted in English and will be recorded and transcribed. Subsequently 
the transcripts will be translated in the 5 UN languages and posted on the 
CWG-Stewardship Wiki here<https://community.icann.org/x/ryYnAw>.

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Further information

For further information about the CWG-Stewardship's work, please 
seehttps://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg.

For further information about the ICG and the IANA Stewardship Transition, 
please seehttps://www.icann.org/stewardship.