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            <td>[CWG-Stewardship] WEBINAR: CWG-Stewardship Briefing on
              2nd Draft Proposal for Public Comment</td>
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            <td>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:10:44 +0000</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Grace Abuhamad <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org"><grace.abuhamad@icann.org></a></td>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org"><cwg-stewardship@icann.org></a></td>
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        !important;">WEBINAR: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) On
        IANA Naming Related Functions: Briefing on 2nd Draft Proposal
        for Public Comment</h1>
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            Transition</p>
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          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">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.</p>
        <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem;
          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">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 2<span
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        <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem;
          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">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.</p>
        <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem;
          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">The CWG-Stewardship
          will hold two identical webinars at different times to
          facilitate participation across time zones. The webinars will
          take place on:</p>
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            margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px;"><strong style="box-sizing:
              border-box;">24 April from 06:00 – 07:30 UTC</strong> (time
            zone converter <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CWG-Stewardship+Webinar&iso=20150424T06&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204);
              text-decoration: none; clear: both; background-color:
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              background-repeat: initial initial;">here</a>)</li>
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            margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px;"><strong style="box-sizing:
              border-box;">24 April from 14:00 – 15:30 UTC</strong> (time
            zone converter <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CWG-Stewardship+Webinar&iso=20150424T14&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30"
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              text-decoration: none; clear: both; background-color:
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            style="box-sizing: border-box;">Webinar Details & How to
            Attend</em></h3>
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          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">The webinars will
          be run in an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/cwg-iana/"
            style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204);
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            initial initial;">Adobe Connect room</a>. If you are
          interested in attending the webinar and would like to receive
          dial-in details, please send an email to <a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:brenda.brewer@icann.org"
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            initial initial;">brenda.brewer@icann.org</a> 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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://community.icann.org/x/ryYnAw"
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        <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem;
          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">For further
          information about the CWG-Stewardship's work, please see<a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg"
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            text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;
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            initial initial;">https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg</a>.</p>
        <p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4rem;
          font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">For further
          information about the ICG and the IANA Stewardship Transition,
          please see<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://www.icann.org/stewardship" style="box-sizing:
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