<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Avri Doria was appointed by NCSG Policy Committee as representative of NCSG to the cross community working group on IANA transition. She will liaise with NCSG and offered to work with other members who will join as observers.</div><div><br>
as you can read below, you can join  that working group as observer by following the instructions below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Grace Abuhamad</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2014-09-27 2:55 GMT+09:00<br>Subject: [ianatransition] Call for Observers to join CWG on Naming Related Functions<br>To: "<a href="mailto:ianatransition@icann.org">ianatransition@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ianatransition@icann.org">ianatransition@icann.org</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>To view the original post, please see <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en</a></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-weight:500!important;font-size:1.31rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);padding:0px 0px 1rem;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,207,207);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Call for Observers to Join Cross Community Working Group to Develop an <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr>Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions</h1><div style="font-size:1.62rem;margin-bottom:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300&winname=addthis&pub=ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89&source=tbx32-300&lng=en-US&s=linkedin&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fnews%2Fannouncement-2014-09-26-en&title=Call%20for%20Observers%20to%20Join%20Cross%20Community%20Working%20Group%20to%20Develop%20an%20IANA%20Stewardship%20Transition%20Proposal%20on%20Naming%20Related%20Functions%20-%20ICANN&ate=AT-ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89/-/-/5425a7f448860d94/2&frommenu=1&uid=5425a7f4d02a0d74&ct=1&tt=0&captcha_provider=nucaptcha" title="LinkedIn" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a title="Tweet" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a href="https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300&winname=addthis&pub=ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89&source=tbx32-300&lng=en-US&s=sinaweibo&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2Fnews%2Fannouncement-2014-09-26-en&title=Call%20for%20Observers%20to%20Join%20Cross%20Community%20Working%20Group%20to%20Develop%20an%20IANA%20Stewardship%20Transition%20Proposal%20on%20Naming%20Related%20Functions%20-%20ICANN&ate=AT-ra-52fcc7eb243d6d89/-/-/5425a7f448860d94/3&frommenu=1&uid=5425a7f4b5a5d58b&ct=1&tt=0&captcha_provider=nucaptcha" title="Sina Weibo" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a title="Email" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-09-26-en#" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:none!important;margin-right:7.5px;float:left;padding:0px 2px;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank"><i style="display:inline-block;font-family:FontAwesome;font-style:normal;line-height:1;font-size:1.2rem"></i></a><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div style="width:1px;min-height:1px;border:0px!important;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-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kground:transparent" target="_blank">first meeting</a> (via teleconference) on 6 October at 13.00 UTC, followed by a <a href="http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-iana-stewardship-naming" style="font-weight:300;color:rgb(33,123,192);text-decoration:none;background:transparent" target="_blank">F2F meeting in Los Angeles during the <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICANN</abbr> meeting</a> (scheduled for Monday 13 October from 12.15 – 13.45 local time (19.15 – 22.45 UTC), with remote participation). Both sessions will be recorded and transcribed.</strong></p><h3 style="font-weight:500!important;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.31rem;padding:0.75rem 0px 0.5rem;margin:0px">Background</h3><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem">The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (<abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NTIA</abbr>) has requested that <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICANN</abbr>"convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role" with regard to the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> Functions and related root zone management. In making its announcement, the <abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NTIA</abbr> specified that the transition proposal must have broad community support and meet the following principles:</p><ul style="padding:0px;line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem 20px"><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px">Support and enhance the multistakeholder model</li><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px">Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet <abbr title="Domain Name System" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">DNS</abbr></li><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px">Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and partners of the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> services</li><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px">Maintain the openness of the Internet.</li></ul><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem"><abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NTIA</abbr> also specified that it would not accept a proposal that replaces the <abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NTIA</abbr> role with a government-led or an intergovernmental organization solution.</p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem">On June 6 <abbr title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICANN</abbr> proposed the creation of an <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (<abbr title="IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICG</abbr>) "responsible for preparing a transition proposal reflecting the differing needs of the various affected parties of the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> functions."</p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem">It was determined that Stewardship Transition proposals for each of the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> functions should be developed by the directly affected communities, the <abbr title="Internet Engineering Task Force" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IETF</abbr> and <abbr title="Internet Architecture Board" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IAB</abbr> for <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> functions related to Internet<abbr title="Protocol" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">Protocol</abbr> Parameters; the <abbr title="Number Resource Organization" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NRO</abbr>, the <abbr title="Address Supporting Organization" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ASO</abbr>, and the RIRs for functions related the management and distribution of numbering resources; and the <abbr title="Generic Names Supporting Organization" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">GNSO</abbr> and <abbr title="Country Code Names Supporting Organization" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ccNSO</abbr> for functions related to the <abbr title="Domain Name" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">Domain Name</abbr>System. These efforts will inform the work of the <abbr title="IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICG</abbr>, whose responsibility is to develop an overall integrated transition proposal from these autonomously developed components.</p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem">Two of <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr>'s global directly affected communities, the addressing and Internet protocol parameter communities, have responded to the <abbr title="US National Telecommunications and Information Agency" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">NTIA</abbr>'s announcement and the formation of the <abbr title="IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">ICG</abbr>, by establishing working groups to provide input on their specific needs and expectations with respect to the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr>Stewardship Transition.</p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem">This CWG was formed as an integral part of this transition process, and to develop a proposal for the elements of the <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> Stewardship Transition that directly affect the naming community.</p><h3 style="font-weight:500!important;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.31rem;padding:0.75rem 0px 0.5rem;margin:0px">Further Information</h3><ul style="padding:0px;line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem 20px"><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/iana-stewardship-naming-function-charter-14aug14-en.pdf" style="color:rgb(33,123,192);text-decoration:none;clear:both;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Charter of Cross Community Working Group (CWG) to develop an <abbr title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" style="direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted">IANA</abbr> Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions</a> [PDF, 277 KB]</li><li style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 15px 20px"><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg" style="color:rgb(33,123,192);text-decoration:none;clear:both;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">CWG Wiki</a></li></ul></div></div></div>
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