<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Good news indeed, The board bring practical.</div><div><br></div><div> I hope this could help/facilitate CWG discussion to reach a position on the issue.<br><div style="text-align: left;direction: ltr; "><div style="text-align: left;direction: ltr; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left;direction: ltr; ">Kind Regards,</div><div style="text-align: left;direction: ltr; ">Mohamed </div><div style="text-align: left;direction: ltr; "><br></div></div></div><div><br>On 15 Aug 2015, at 20:55, Drazek, Keith <<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Very good news!</div>
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On Aug 15, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu">milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The following is our formal statement on the IANA IPR. We will post this on our website ASAP.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">ICANN Statement re IANA Intellectual Property (IPR)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">We support the ICG proposal and the underlying proposals from CWG, CRISP and IANAPLAN. The ICANN Board is focused on
how to implement the IPR component of the proposal. The ICANN Board believes that for stability and pragmatic operational reasons, the IANA Functions Operator must have operational control over the <a href="http://iana.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://IANA.ORG</span></a> domain.
During the transition, ICANN is prepared to transfer full ownership of the IANA-related trademarks to a neutral third party mutually agreed among the operational communities with the understanding that ICANN, as the current IANA Functions Operator, will be
granted license to those trademarks and ICANN will maintain operational control of the <a href="http://iana.org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://IANA.ORG</span></a> domain for as long as ICANN remains the IANA Functions Operator.
If the transfer during the transition affects the timeline, we advise delay until after the transition. In that event ICANN is ready to hold the IPR as interim measure but commits to transfer it within 120 days after the neutral third party is identified
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