Dear colleagues, At RIPE 69, at the beginning of November 2014, the RIPE community selected three representatives (two community members and one RIPE NCC staff member) to participate in the Consolidated RIR IANA Stewardship Proposal (CRISP) team. The RIPE CRISP team members are: - Andrei Robachevsky (Internet Society) - Nurani Nimpuno (Netnod) - Paul Rendek (RIPE NCC staff) The CRISP team is tasked with preparing a common proposal on behalf of the global numbering community for stewardship of the IANA functions. This proposal is to be passed to the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG), which has asked that proposals from the three affected communities be formatted around a Request for Proposals (RFP) template produced by the ICG. The members of the CRISP team selected by the RIPE community will work with CRISP team representatives from the other regions to develop this RFP. Their work will be guided by the principles agreed by the RIPE community (see below) and they will ensure that the community remains informed as to the progress and direction of discussions in the CRISP team. Communication to the RIPE community will be via the RIPE Cooperation Working Group mailing list. The principles agreed by the RIPE community, as understood (and updated) by the RIPE CRISP team members, are: - The RIPE community asks its selected CRISP team representatives to work with the other RIRs to produce a common proposal for a legally binding agreement (such as a Service Level Agreement) between ICANN and the RIRs to replace the Internet number-related elements of the ICANN-NTIA agreement. - This proposal should meet the requirements of the Request For Proposals (RFP) produced by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG). - The proposal should bring the provisions of the agreement related to the services and service levels up-to-date with current requirements where necessary. - This work should be coordinated with the other users of the IANA function as much as practical, with the aim of producing a proposed arrangement that is compatible with the proposed arrangements of the other IANA users. - The RIPE community asks its CRISP team representatives to keep it informed about progress and content of the proposal. - The RIPE community asks the CRISP team to complete the proposal and to submit it to the ICG before 15 January 2015. The RIPE CRISP team have also identified what we see as an additional principle, not currently made explicit: - Changes to the policy-making structures or processes relating to the IANA registries are not within the scope of the IANA stewardship discussion. At this stage, we (as RIPE CRISP team members) would appreciate any feedback from the community on these principles. The timeline for the CRISP team’s work is very aggressive, and we plan to provide regular updates to this working group, both on the substance of the proposal being developed, the text under discussion and the CRISP team's timeline and processes (including information about public teleconferences). Best regards, Nurani Nimpuno on behalf of the RIPE CRISP team