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IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Documents & Calls for Input

Open Calls for Input:

None at this time.

Current ICG Adopted Documents:

To view ICG drafts, please go to the ICG public dropbox

19 April 2016

Dr. Alissa Cooper, Chair, IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group – Answers to Question for the Record, U.S. Congress, Committee on Energy and Commerce [PDF, 300 KB]

17 March 2016

Dr. Alissa Cooper, Chair, IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group – Testimony before the U.S. Congress, Committee on Energy and Commerce [PDF, 272 KB]

10 March 2016

IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal [PDF, 2.38 MB]

30 November 2015

Summary Report on Public Comments Received

29 October 2015

IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal [PDF, 2.32 MB]

24 August 2015

FAQs

5 August 2015

ICG webinar presentation slides [PDF, 1.85 MB]

31 July 2015

IANA Transition Proposal [PDF, 2.07 MB]

30 July 2015

Q&A Matrix [XLSX, 20 KB]

6 July 2015

ICG Communications Strategy [PDF, 134 KB]

6 July 2015

Timeline Graphic [XLSX, 13 KB]

1 May 2015

Handling community comments submitted to the ICG Forum [PDF, 40 KB]

11 April 2015

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Process - Updated timeline [PDF, 53 KB]

7 Jan 2015

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Process - Updated timeline [PDF, 51 KB]

24 Dec 2014

Assembly and Finalization Process [PDF, 87 KB]

10 Oct 2014

FAQs

17 Sept 2014

ICG Guidelines for Decision Making [PDF, 125 KB]

8 Sept 2014

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Request for Proposals [PDF, 84 KB]

Proposals should be submitted to icg-proposal@icann.org by 15 January 2015 (Comment archives)

27 Aug 2014

Charter for the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group [PDF, 45 KB]

18 Jul 2014

Statement from the First Meeting of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) [PDF, 100 KB]

Archived Calls for Input:

2 Feb - 4 Feb 2015

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group - Announcement Regarding Community Comments

Comment Archives

9 Sept - 15 Jan 2015

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Request for Proposals

Proposals submitted to icg-proposal@icann.org

Comment archives

9 Sept - 14 Sept 2014

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Request for Proposals

Requests for clarifications submitted to stewardship-rfp-questions@icann.org

9 Sept - 6 Oct 2014

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Process Timeline + Timeline Graphic [XLSX, 45 KB]

Comment Archives

8 Aug – 15 Sept 2014

ICG Charter Open for Public Comments

Comment Archives

Archived ICG Adopted Documents:

9 Sept 2015

Request for Proposal for Performance of Secretariat Function for the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group [ZIP, 610 KB]

8 Sept 2014

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Process Timeline [PDF, 60 KB]

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