This Session will provide delegates with information concerning the IANA Transition process that ICANN has been facilitating including the ground breaking and important work on enhancing ICANN’s accountability to the global Internet Community. With contributions from the main Community players, as well as the co-chairs of the two important Committees that have driven this work, the Session will look at the process adopted by ICANN, pursuant to the US request for ICANN to facilitate the IANA transition process in March 2014, the challenges and difficulties encountered and the critical path followed up to the submission of the Proposal to the US Department of Commerce at the end of the ICANN 55 meeting in Marrakech. The Session will include an overview of the main Accountability provisions and, with the expertise provided by Theresa Swinehart from ICANN, will look at the steps ICANN will be taking to implement the new measures (subsequent to approval of the proposals by the US) as well as the further work on Accountability taking place over the next year or so.