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===ICANN 51===
===ICANN 51===
At [[ICANN 51]], the ICG met with the ALAC and GAC, as well as holding a public engagement session for the entire community.<ref name="icgmtgs" /> The ALAC and GAC meetings featured presentations from ICG members regarding the mission of the ICG, community development of proposals, and expectations and timelines regarding community participation.<ref>[https://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-atlarge-iana-stewardship/presentation-icg-14oct14-en.pdf ICANN.org Archive - ICANN 51 ICG-ALAC Meeting Presentation Deck], October 14, 2014</ref> The public session featured a similar presentation at the beginning, with many questions being fielded from the community.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/thu-icg-community/transcript-icg-community-16oct14-en.html ICANN 51 Archive - Transcript, ICG Community Session], October 16, 2014</ref>
At [[ICANN 51]], the ICG met with the ALAC and GAC, as well as holding a public engagement session for the entire community.<ref name="icgmtgs" /> The ALAC and GAC meetings featured presentations from ICG members regarding the mission of the ICG, community development of proposals, and expectations and timelines regarding community participation.<ref>[https://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-atlarge-iana-stewardship/presentation-icg-14oct14-en.pdf ICANN.org Archive - ICANN 51 ICG-ALAC Meeting Presentation Deck], October 14, 2014</ref> The public session featured a similar presentation at the beginning, with many questions being fielded from the community.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/thu-icg-community/transcript-icg-community-16oct14-en.html ICANN 51 Archive - Transcript, ICG Community Session], October 16, 2014</ref>
The ICG also held a day-long meeting at ICANN 51 to continue work on its tasks and objectives.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/fri-icg.html ICANN 51 Archive - ICG Meeting], October 17, 2014</ref>
At the Public Forum, the twin topics of IANA transition and ICANN Accountability were again first on the agenda for public comment.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/thu-public-forum/transcript-public-forum-16oct14-en.html ICANN 51 Archive - Public Forum Transcript], October 16, 2014</ref> At the board meeting following the forum, the board approved a resolution setting out the procedures in the event that the board disagreed with a recommendation from the [[Cross Community Working Group on ICANN Accountability]].<ref name="51bmtg">[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/thu-board/transcript-board-16oct14-en.html ICANN 51 Archive - Transcript, Board Meeting], October 16, 2014</ref> The procedure involved options for dialogue and refinement around any recommendation that the board considered to be against the global public interest.<ref name="51bmtg" /> Upon passage of the resolution, Bruce Tonkin noted:
<blockquote>One other question we've received this week is regarding how we would handle the output from the IANA transition coordination group. What we will do now that we passed this resolution, is we will then send this proposed approach to that coordination group for their consideration. And hopefully we'll be able to come up with a similar mechanism to, again, provide certainty in how we will be handling that.<ref name="51bmtg" /></blockquote> The comment was the subject of discussion in the ICG's meeting the following day.<ref name="51icg">[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/fri-icg/transcript-icg-17oct14-en.html ICANN 51 Archive - Transcript, ICG Meeting], October 17, 2014</ref>
The ICG also held a day-long meeting at ICANN 51 to continue work on its tasks and objectives.<ref>[https://archive.icann.org/meetings/losangeles2014/en/schedule/fri-icg.html ICANN 51 Archive - ICG Meeting], October 17, 2014</ref> During the agenda bashing session, Martin Boyle brought up the resolution regarding CCWG-Accountability and the implications for the ICG's work:
"The board resolution yesterday, both in its relationship to the ICANN accountability and also in relation to this group, provides a safeguard mechanism that allows the ICANN board to reject our paper." The issue was added to the agenda section devoted to the ICG's relationship with and to the CCWG-Accountability and its work, which become more broadly focused on relationships with external orgs and projects.<ref name="51icg" /> The consensus opinion was that any preference or privileged position for the ICANN Board's opinion of the final consolidated proposal was unacceptable. Milton Mueller was the strongest advocate for the ICG's independence:
<blockquote>I don't think we can be put in a position where we're giving a particular organization a special opportunity to make the proposal acceptable to them. ICANN can file public comments on the final proposal...But we would also see how much support it had from the rest of the community when they raised this issue.
But this idea of bilateral negotiations, I think, is completely unacceptable. It implies that they don't need -- that we're negotiating with them, that we're responding especially to them. Whereas, this is a proposal about the entire community and about their relationship to the IANA functions which, of course, is a contracted function, that they have no special permanent claim to before now other than what the NTIA chose to give them. So I think this is very important, and we have to be very clear about this.<ref name="51icg" /></blockquote>
Kuo-Wei Wu acknowledged the concerns raised, and noted initially that there had been no substantive conversation regarding the issue of crafting a procedure similar to the CCWG-Accountability process.<ref name="51icg" />
This phase of the meeting also addressed interactions with and expectations around both the Internet Names Cross Community Working Group on the IANA Transition (CWG-IANA), and the CCWG-Accountability.<ref name="51icg" />
==ICANN 53 Announcement==
==ICANN 53 Announcement==