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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>
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:
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 Enhancing 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>
<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>
===GAO Report on Evaluation of Transition Proposal===
===GAO Report on Evaluation of Transition Proposal===
In September 2015, the GAO publicly released GAO-15-642, "Structured Evaluation Could Help Assess Proposed Transition of Key Domain Name and Other Technical Functions."<ref name="gao">[https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-642 GAO.gov - GAO-15-642], published August 19, 2015; publicly released September 18, 2015</ref> The report was focused on the IANA Transition and the NTIA's role of evaluating and approving the combined transition proposal. In the course of its study, the GAO reviewed documents regarding from ICANN, the ICG, and the working groups devoted to aspects of the transition, interviewed representatives of ten stakeholder federal agencies and thirty-one non-federal agency stakeholders, and interviewed technical experts, including ICANN staff.<ref name="gao" /> The report concluded that NTIA should review relevant evaluation frameworks, such as ISO quality management principles, and adopt or adapt elements of those frameworks in its review of the IANA transition proposal.<ref name="gao" /> The GAO found broad support for the transition during its interview process.<ref name="gao" /> Upon receipt of the report, the Department of Commerce concurred with the recommendation and confirmed that "[a]s part of its evaluation, NTIA will use relevant frameworks suggested by the U.S. GAO to guide its assessment of the final proposal against core goals."<ref name="gao" />
In September 2015, the GAO publicly released GAO-15-642, "Structured Evaluation Could Help Assess Proposed Transition of Key Domain Name and Other Technical Functions."<ref name="gao">[https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-642 GAO.gov - GAO-15-642], published August 19, 2015; publicly released September 18, 2015</ref> The report was focused on the IANA Transition and the NTIA's role of evaluating and approving the combined transition proposal. In the course of its study, the GAO reviewed documents regarding from ICANN, the ICG, and the working groups devoted to aspects of the transition, interviewed representatives of ten stakeholder federal agencies and thirty-one non-federal agency stakeholders, and interviewed technical experts, including ICANN staff.<ref name="gao" /> The report concluded that NTIA should review relevant evaluation frameworks, such as ISO quality management principles, and adopt or adapt elements of those frameworks in its review of the IANA transition proposal.<ref name="gao" /> The GAO found broad support for the transition during its interview process.<ref name="gao" /> Upon receipt of the report, the Department of Commerce concurred with the recommendation and confirmed that "[a]s part of its evaluation, NTIA will use relevant frameworks suggested by the U.S. GAO to guide its assessment of the final proposal against core goals."<ref name="gao" />
===CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal 2 and Public Comments===
In their last call before their in-person meeting at ICANN 54, the ICG discussed some serious divisions of opinions regarding the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1's second draft proposal. The working group had published their second draft report<ref name="acct2report">[https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ccwg-draft-2-proposal-work-stream-1-recs-03aug15-en.pdf ICANN.org Archive - CCWG-Accountability Proposal], Draft 2, Work Stream 1, August 3, 2015</ref> for public comment in August.<ref name="acct2pc">[https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ccwg-accountability-2015-08-03-en ICANN Public Comment Archive - CCWG-Accountability 2nd Draft Report (Work Stream 1)], August 3 - September 12, 2015</ref> The report received multiple public comments, including a lengthy response and alternative proposal from the ICANN Board.<ref>[https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-ccwg-accountability-03aug15/msg00045.html ICANN Listserv Archive - ICANN Board Submission of Supplementary and Final Comments], September 11, 2015</ref> The principle sticking point between the board and the working group was the mechanism for community empowerment. [[Paul Wilson]] commented on the call about his perception of the severity of the potential delay:
<blockquote>I think our mission is threatened by what’s going on there. We’re in a potential position of having this entire work effort essentially wasted because a delay for another several years takes us into a completely different environment where this effort that we’ve done may just need to be restarted completely.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/transcript-icg-08oct15-en.pdf ICG Meeting Archive - Transcript, ICG Call #24], October 8, 2015</ref></blockquote>
===ICANN 54===
[[ICANN 54]] in Dublin featured an in-person meeting of the ICG, as well as considerable work and discussion regarding public comments on the second draft proposal of the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1. [[Ira Magaziner]] was again invited to speak on transition perspectives, along with a panel of congressional staffers and attorneys.<ref>[https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/sun-transition-perspectives ICANN 54 Archive - Transition Perspectives: From an Internet Pioneer and the U.S. Congress], October 18, 2015</ref> Magaziner's comments focused on the momentum that had been gained in the IANA stewardship transition:
<blockquote>[T]here has been a bottoms-up process with comments, with lots of people involved and I think it's 98, 99% of the way there now to achieving a consensus.<br />
I think over the coming days, some people who have strongly felt positions, particularly on the accountability issues and so on, are going to have to be willing to modify those positions some. But I think if the history of the consensus process holds, they'll do so; and we'll get a common proposal that I hope will come in a matter of days but certainly not too much into the future. And then at that point, the community will write up a good cogent document that it can present to the U.S. government to hopefully follow through in the transition. And the gentlemen who will be coming up to the stage after me will talk a bit about the process from there.<br />
But I'm very hopeful that the consensus is just about there. I congratulate the committee chairs and others who have worked on this. It has been a monumental job to navigate all of this through and get it to this point of consensus. And I think they will finish the job in the coming days. And I'm very optimistic about that.<br />
I'm also optimistic -- I had a very brief chance to meet with some of the staffs. And I'm also optimistic that there is a bipartisan spirit in the U.S. Congress about this. And I'm hopeful that it will avoid the kind of politics that are swirling around and that this will be able to follow through on its merits.<ref name="54tptranscript">[https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/sun-transition-perspectives/transcript-transition-perspectives-18oct15-en ICANN 54 Archive - Transcript: Transition Perspectives], October 18, 2015</ref></blockquote>
The panel of individuals from Congress was equally positive about the prospects for success. Discussing the transition proposal thus far, the members of both Senate and House committees with oversight over NTIA expressed appreciation for the process and reinforced the bipartisan support for a strong transition proposal.<ref name="54tptranscript" />
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