Hi, all: You probably know that in March 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to “transition its stewardship role of the IANA Functions and related management”. This meant that NTIA will no longer oversee a contract with ICANN to manage IANA. ICANN will have to do it itself. To get this started, NTIA called on ICANN to “coordinate” the drafting of a proposal to transition this stewardship role to the broader global multi-stakeholder community. This meant drafting of a proposal of its own and inviting other proposals from IETF and the various numbers registries (ARIN, RIPE and the others) and then coordinating them all into one proposal to present to NTIA. ICANN now has a (second) draft of its proposal “ready for comment” (this request for public comment is fairly standard for ICANN policy documents). This one is important enough that we're asking you to look it over and accept ICANN's invitation to comment. Comments are going to be accepted until May 20 – that's short, I know, but there it is. Now, this is a pretty complex document – it's a kind of complex matter, involving contract law (in California, where ICANN is registered), the concerns of a lot of stakeholders outside the US, and the need for ICANN to be seen to be accountable. So, here it is. Send your comments to me at gordon@look.ca and I'll compile them into a group comment for ICANN. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cwg-stewardship-draft-proposal-w... I'm not sure you want to tackle the proposal with annexes. It's painful. Enjoy Gordon Community Affairs Group GTALUG