The status of the ILC global effort is reviewed starting from the physics motivations and describing the present strategy to build such a machine and its associated detectors. Then assuming that the first significant results from LHC will soon become available, this presentation assumes four different scenarios and discuss the implications for ILC.

PACS numbers: 13.66.–a, 13.66.Bc, 13.66.Fg, 13.66.Hk