[Internal-cg] Proposal approval and agenda for call #26

[Mary Uduma]

Thank you Jari for your massage and reminders. I very much support your proposal and others who have counselled that ICG acts at the right time.  
‎I believe the call today will help fine tune our work and clear grey areas. Thank you Alissa for sending documents ahead of the call. 
Mary Uduma
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
  Original Message  
From: Jari Arkko
Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2016 09:41
To: Kavouss Arasteh
Cc: IANA etc etcCoordination Group
Subject: Re: [Internal-cg] Proposal approval and agenda for call #26

Background:

I’m very happy that we have come this far, tremendous amount of progress. And have a timeline that is, I think, realistic. We are very close, but of course not quite there. I am still concerned that we are at the final deadline for the transition during this administration; I’m concerned that a new administration and new people would probably mean a reset. Up-leveling a bit, the transition isn’t as important as our ecosystem. But there’s no going back to the status quo. We can’t fail, because failure do tremendous damage to the multistakeholder model, trust to our organisations, and so on. To the Internet. So my conclusion is that we need to finish this, and doing it in Marrakesh is absolutely essential.

And then back on topic:

I understand very well that when it comes to substance and substantial issues, we need to get them right. That is why the chartering organisations are looking hard at the CCWG proposal. We should give them the time and right to do so. However, I think we should do our part and be ready when it is practically possible. I think we can prepare ourselves and decide that if this is approved then we are also fine with it, and authorise the chairs to take the next steps. Obviously anything can happen, and if it does, we’ll need more discussions here in the ICG as well. But we should only do that if it is necessary.

Jari