IANA Transition Working Group Finished With Most Plan Work, Awaits Final ICANN Accountability Proposal
ICANN’s Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Transition Coordination Group (ICG) said Thursday that it has completed almost all elements of its final proposal for the IANA transition plan but is still awaiting a final proposal from the Cross Community Working…
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Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability). Major portions of the ICG’s plan derived from a proposal submitted by the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions are dependent on CCWG-Accountability’s set of proposed changes to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms. CCWG-Accountability reached a high-level consensus on several additional items in its proposal during ICANN’s meeting in Dublin last week, but the working group’s proposal won’t be ready to submit to the ICANN board until late January (see 1510220053). ICG said in a news release that it will need to “secure confirmation” from CCWG-Accountability that its accountability proposal will meet NTIA requirements before ICG will send its own proposal on to the ICANN board. Portions of the ICG’s plan derived from proposals by the Consolidated Regional Internet Registries IANA Stewardship Proposal team and the Internet Engineering Task Force’s IANAPLAN working group “are complete, ready for implementation, and have no dependencies on the work of [CCWG-Accountability] or other remaining processes,” ICG said.