Late on the evening on April 22nd the CWG-Stewardship on the IANA Naming Functions issued its second Draft Proposal for a 28-day public comment period that closes on May 20th. Information about the Proposal can be found in a news announcement and at the public comment page. ICANN has scheduled a 90-minute explanatory webinar on …
The one million dollar question however is: “If the ICANN CEO thinks that the CWG does not understand how the IANA functions work, and no body else understands it but ICANN, then why give such an important responsibility of aspects of the IANA Transition proposal to a group of people that presumably do not understand how the …
As writen by Kieren McCarthy on Theregister.co.uk Video footage has surfaced of ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade slagging off an independent team investigating how the internet’s crucial IANA body will be governed in future. Chehade said during breakfast with domain-name industry types: “There is no one today in the CWG [Community Working Group] who even understands …
The CCWG-Accountability and the CWG-Stewardship holds a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul, Turkey the week of 23-27 March 2015. The CWG and CCWG leaders coordinated the location, agreeing that holding their respective two-day meetings consecutively was the best way to apply resources and manage joint efforts. These decisive meetings are scheduled to help reinforce each group’s …
ICANN Cross Community Working Group (CWG) has published the draft transition proposal for public comment. The comment period opened on 1 December 2014. Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the …