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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For those interested in the proceedings of the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group, please read below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Friday, July 04, 2014 2:29 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> ICANN News Alert -- Formation of the Coordination Group<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.icann.org/"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=94 height=94 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF9782.65C8B9F0" alt=ICANN></span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-03-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-03-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:15.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div></div><h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Formation of the Coordination Group<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3 July 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On 14 March 2014, the NTIA announced its intention to transition its stewardship role of IANA functions, and called upon ICANN to launch and facilitate a process with the community to derive a proposal to transition the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community, meeting the criteria set out by NTIA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following community consultation, the <a href="http://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-06-06-en">process</a> for developing a proposal for this transition was posted on 6 June 2014. As part for this process, a Coordination Group will be responsible for preparing a transitional proposal respective of the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Coordination Group is comprised of the individuals nominated by each represented community. These 27 individuals represent 13 communities of both direct and indirect stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Communities represented in the Coordination Group were urged to launch internal processes to select their representatives, and submit those nominations to ICANN by <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>23:59 UTC on 2 July 2014</span></strong> through a provided <a href="https://forms.icann.org/en/icg">submission form</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><a name=coordination-group id=coordination-group></a><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As of 20:00 UTC, confirmed Coordination Group Representatives are:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="50%" style='width:50.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ASO</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hartmut Glaser<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wolf-Ulrich Knoben<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Milton Mueller<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>gTLD Registries</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Keith Drazek<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>gTLD Registries</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jon Nevett<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICC/BASIS</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joseph Alhadeff<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IAB</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Russ Housley<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IAB</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lynn St Armour<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IETF</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jari Arkko<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IETF</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alissa Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISOC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Narelle Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISOC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Demi Getschko<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NRO</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Adiel Akplogan<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NRO</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paul Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RSSAC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Daniel Karrenberg<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RSSAC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lars-Johan Liman<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SSAC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Patrik Fälström<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SSAC</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;border-right:solid #D8D8D8 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Russ Mundy<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pending are the submissions from the ccNSO, the GAC, the ALAC, and a final representative for GNSO.</span></em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An additional list of the nominated Coordination Group representatives can be found <a href="http://www.icann.org/resources/pages/coordination-group-2014-06-17-en">here</a>. This list will be updated as outstanding nominations are received and confirmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The first face-to-face meeting of the Coordination Group will occur in London on 17-18 July 2014 at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-right:8.25pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The meeting of the Coordination Group will be <a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/coordinationgroup/">streamed live</a> and simultaneously translated into the five UN languages plus Portuguese. In addition, relevant transcripts and recordings will also be posted to the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition website.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01CF9782.65C8B9F0" alt="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=941131&act=MI8Z&r=25971199&c=165637"></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>