[Internal-cg] Thursday events

Paul Wilson pwilson at apnic.net
Wed Mar 9 23:41:51 UTC 2016 

Agreed, the statement is very nice.

And likewise from me, congrats to everyone, particularly to our 
fantastic Chairs and equally fantastic Secretariat.

I look forward to the “especially celebratory” party tomorrow night. 
  :-)

Paul.


On 10 Mar 2016, at 7:33, lynn at lstamour.org wrote:

> Hi Alissa,
>
>
> I think this is a very good statement, and affirms all the important 
> points.
>
>
> CONGRATULATIONS to all for all the excellent work!!
>
>
> Wishing I was there to celebrate with all of you,
>
>
> Warmest regards,
> Lynn
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Internal-cg] Thursday events
>> From: Alissa Cooper <[alissa at cooperw.in](mailto:alissa at cooperw.in)>
>> Date: Wed, March 09, 2016 11:05 am
>> To: IANA etc etcCoordination Group 
>> <[internal-cg at ianacg.org](mailto:internal-cg at ianacg.org)>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As you have seen, the CCWG proposal has receive approval/no objection 
>> from all chartering organizations. So we are ready to move forward! 
>> Here is the plan for tomorrow:
>>
>> CCWG session - 9:00 UTC
>>
>> Patrik, Mohamed, and I will attend the CCWG session that starts at 
>> 9:00 UTC. As soon as it looks like they are ready to send their 
>> proposal to the Board, we will send ours, at roughly the same time. I 
>> have the email ready to go with attachment and link. Jennifer has the 
>> web site announcement ready to post as soon as we send the email.
>>
>>
>> Public Board meeting - 16:30 UTC
>>
>> At the Board meeting Steve Crocker and other Board members will 
>> provide some remarks, and then at some point I will be invited to 
>> address the Board and the community, followed by one of the CCWG 
>> co-chairs. My proposed remarks for that are below. Then the hope is 
>> that the Board will pass a couple of resolutions to get the proposals 
>> sent off to NTIA and the community will be able to celebrate together 
>> for a moment.
>>
>> A press release will be issued by ICANN and other organizations at 
>> the time the Board votes and I will be quoted in the release.
>>
>>
>> Press conference - following Board meeting
>>
>> After the Board meeting there will be a press conference for local 
>> reporters in attendance in Marrakech and remote reporters dialed in 
>> via teleconference. I will attend on behalf of the ICG, along with 
>> representatives from the CCWG, CWG, IETF, RIRs, and ICANN. I will 
>> stick to the same messages in the comments below, the content of our 
>> proposal, and our FAQ and other materials. ICANN will also be 
>> publishing an FAQ about the two proposals together and the 
>> transition, and our comms subgroup is working with them on that 
>> content, aligning it with our existing content. We will share links 
>> to that and the press release when we have them.
>>
>> Afterwards
>>
>> Of course there will be the usual ICANN cocktail tomorrow night, 
>> which I imagine may be especially celebratory. :) In the coming days 
>> we will respond to media outreach as we’ve been doing in the past, 
>> triaging who can respond based on availability, geography, etc.
>>
>> Please send questions/comments if you have them. Hope to see many of 
>> you at the CCWG meeting and Board meeting tomorrow.
>>
>> Alissa
>>
>> —
>>
>> Remarks to the community and Board:
>>
>> At the beginning of this process, the ICG put a simple request out to 
>> the communities that have direct operational relationships with IANA: 
>> write us a transition proposal. Tell us your community's vision for 
>> what happens when the NTIA contract expires.
>>
>> Hundreds of people from all across the world responded to that call 
>> -- people with technical, policy, business, and academic backgrounds, 
>> people in the public and private sectors and people working in civil 
>> society.
>>
>> I want to especially thank every person who participated in the 
>> operational community processes in the RIR communities and on the 
>> CRISP team, in the CWG, and in the IANAPLAN working group in the 
>> IETF. The ICG set tight deadlines and asked tough questions, and the 
>> people who participated in these processes did their utmost to meet 
>> our demands. Many of the participants are here in the room and many 
>> more are not, and they all deserve a huge round of applause.
>>
>> I also want to express deep appreciation to my ICG colleagues, who 
>> displayed the true spirit of consensus-based decision-making, 
>> compromise, professionalism, and willingness to bridge differences in 
>> service of a higher purpose. Thank you.
>>
>> The result of all of the work that went on in all of the communities 
>> is a transition proposal that meets the needs of the Internet and its 
>> users. The ICG conducted a rigorous assessment of both the substance 
>> of the proposal and the processes that led to its creation. We found 
>> that the proposal was developed through open, inclusive processes. 
>> Each component achieved consensus within the relevant community, and 
>> the final proposal has broad community support along many dimensions.
>>
>> The substance of the proposal supports and enhances the 
>> multistakeholder model; maintains the security, stability, and 
>> resiliency of the Internet DNS; meets the needs and expectations of 
>> the global customers and partners of IANA; maintains the openness of 
>> the Internet; and does not replace NTIA's role with that of a 
>> government or inter-governmental organization. In other words, it 
>> meets the NTIA criteria.
>>
>> One particular strength of the transition proposal is that it 
>> provides continuity with how the Internet works today. The proposal 
>> keeps in place the same operational realities that have supported the 
>> Internet's enormous growth since the 1990s. It keeps the role of the 
>> IANA functions team intact and carrying out the same duties as it has 
>> today. It relies in large part on time-tested, well-proven 
>> structures, processes, and bodies. So the day the NTIA contract 
>> expires Internet users should notice no change.
>>
>> In sum, this proposal is good for the future of the Internet. The ICG 
>> unanimously supports it and recommends that all affected parties 
>> implement it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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