[council] FW: Implementation and Work Stream 2 role for CCWG-Accountability

["James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Council Colleagues -

Please see note below from CCWG-Accountability co-chairs, with an update on 
Work Stream 1 Implementation and Work Stream 2 for Chartering Orgs.

Thanks-

J.


From: Mathieu Weill <mathieu.weill@xxxxxxxx<mailto:mathieu.weill@xxxxxxxx>>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5:38
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Subject: Re: Implementation and Work Stream 2 role for CCWG-Accountability

Dear Chartering Organizations,

We are writing to you to follow up on our email from 6 March (available 
here<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-March/011657.html>),
 and provide an update on the Work Stream 1 implementation oversight and 
scoping for Work Stream 2.

Hearing no objections from the Chartering Organizations, we have proceeded with 
an implementation oversight role to ensure that the implementation is 
consistent with the Work Stream 1 report.

To date, this work has been focused on the drafting of Bylaws and Articles of 
Incorporation. There is a critical path for the Bylaws drafting, and along with 
the CWG-Stewardship co-Chairs, we have instructed our legal teams to work with 
ICANN to draft the Bylaws. It is expected that a final draft of the proposed 
revisions to the Bylaws would be available for CCWG review by 2 April at the 
latest. The CCWG has two calls scheduled to facilitate its review of the 
Bylaws. Following CCWG review, the Bylaws would be published for an open 
community-wide public comment period.

It is important to remember that the overall transition schedule depends on 
completing this work. In order for the transition to take place by the end of 
the current contract between NTIA and ICANN on 30 September, ICANN must publish 
the Bylaws for a 30-day public comment period by 20 April, and the Board would 
need to approve the changes to the Bylaws by 27 May.

Once the Bylaws work is complete, we will turn our focus to:

·         Completing the work on IRP that goes beyond the Bylaws

·         Finalizing the budget process in coordination with the CWG-Stewardship

·         Undertaking Work Stream 2 (WS2)

You may have seen a call for WS2 volunteers on the ICANN website last week 
(available here<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-03-25-en>). We ask 
that you also share this call for volunteers widely to ensure that all 
interested parties, including those outside of the ICANN ecosystem, are aware 
that they are welcome to participate in projects of WS2. It is important for 
our group to continue to strive for maximized diversity of our participants 
going forward.

We would like to emphasize that the CCWG-Accountability will remain open to 
anyone who wishes to join, and we will welcome informed individuals with 
relevant implementation and operational experience to join the 
CCWG-Accountability in this next phase. Finally, we are conscious of the heavy 
workload the CCWG-Accountability has been for your appointed members, and we 
would like to ask once more for Chartering Organizations to re-confirm member 
participation, and appoint new replacement members if necessary.

Thank you,

Leon Sanchez, Thomas Rickert, and Mathieu Weill
CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs