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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">Revised Enhancing
ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps
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<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">10 October 2014</p>
<p>ICANN today published <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-10-10-en">Revised
Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps</a>,
a document that describes the process to examine how, from
an organizational perspective, ICANN's accountability
mechanisms should be strengthened to address the absence of
its historical relationship with the U.S. Government. This
revision incorporates comments from a further <a
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href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/enhancing-accountability-2014-09-05-en">21-day
comment period</a> from 6-27 September 2014.</p>
<p>We appreciate and apologize that this is being posted so
close to the ICANN meeting. However, we wanted to provide
the revised process to the community so it is available for
the ICANN 51 meeting.</p>
<p>On 14 March 2014 the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions">announced</a>
its intent to transition its stewardship of the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global
multistakeholder community. NTIA asked ICANN, as the IANA
functions contractor and global coordinator for the Domain
Name System (DNS), to convene a multistakeholder process to
develop a proposal for the transition, which would end
ICANN's contractual relationship with the U.S. Government
that has existed since 1998. That historical relationship
has been perceived as a backstop with regard to ICANN's
organization-wide accountability.</p>
<p>ICANN received <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06sep14/">17
comments</a> during the 21-day further comment period.
Based on the input received, ICANN proposes integrating the
originally proposed two-group structure into a single Cross
Community Working Group (CCWG), in reflection of the strong
community support for the CCWG model. Additionally, given
the input over the course of the discussions on this
process, it's suggested that the CCWG has two work steams:
one focused on accountability in light of ICANN's changing
historical relationship with the U.S. Government; and the
second, on the broader accountability issues the community
would like to bring to the forefront.</p>
<p>The Revised Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and
Next Steps document can be found <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-10-10-en">here</a>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/process-next-steps-pdf-10oct14-en.pdf">PDF</a>,
350 KB]</p>
<p>A Summary Report of Public Comments received on the
proposed process can be found <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-enhancing-accountability-10oct14-en.pdf">here</a>
[PDF, 506 KB].</p>
<p>Public comments received can be found <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06sep14/">here</a>.</p>
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