[CCWG-Accountability] Agenda for CCWG-Accountability on 30 December at 19:00 UTC

[Paul Rosenzweig]

All

 

As a follow up to our discussion on today's call and in reference to my
point that OUR work on accountability is highly dependent on what the
Board/ICANN will or will not agree to, may I propose that our Chairs send to
the Board and the ICANN CEO a communication roughly along the following
lines:

 

The Cross-Community Working Group on accountability measures has been
considering many accountability mechanisms to recommend concerning the
prospective governance of ICANN.   Many members and participants in the CCWG
have tentatively concluded that the nature and scope of the CCWG's
recommendations  is dependent upon knowing whether or not the Board and
ICANN will agree to certain fundamental limitations on Board authority.
Accordingly, the CCWG requests direct input from the Board and/or CEO on the
following question:

 

"Will the Board agree, in principle, to accept accountability
recommendations that a) restrict (either through Bylaw amendment or
contract) the scope of ICANN activity exclusively to management and
operation of the IANA function; and b) that provides an independent
mechanism (whether through outside arbiter or internal review by a standing
community group) by which alleged attempts by the Board/ICANN to exceed that
narrow scope of authority may be adjudicated and, if necessary, restrained?

 

If the Board is fundamentally willing to accept such limitations then
remaining accountability mechanisms may be reasonably limited to proposals
that relate to the successful implementation of the IANA function itself.
If the Board and ICANN are, however, not willing to accept such limitations
on their own authority then many members of the CCWG believe that
accountability mechanisms proposed by the CCWG will need to be
commensurately broadened."

 

I do not, of course, care terribly much about the specific language we use.
My goal, however, is to find a way to get Board input into our decision
making at a point where it can significantly narrow (or substantially
broadened) our field of consideration. 

 

Perhaps more to the point, simply asking the question creates information -
if the Board is unable or unwilling to answer at all (or if it answers in
the negative) that would, in and of itself, justify the community in seeking
a broader accountability package.  By contrast, if the Board answers
affirmatively, then our task is much simpler - we need to reach consensus on
the critical WS0 board control mechanisms and then add only the IANA
function-related mechanisms we deem necessary.

 

So . my proposal is simply that the Chairs of our WG find some way of both
asking this question formally and getting a formal answer for us at the
earliest practicable opportunity.

 

I wish everyone a very healthy and happy new year.

 

Warm regards

Paul

 

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From: Grace Abuhamad [mailto:grace.abuhamad at icann.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 8:16 AM
To: Accountability Cross Community
Cc: Brenda Brewer
Subject: [CCWG-Accountability] Agenda for CCWG-Accountability on 30 December
at 19:00 UTC

 

Dear all, 

 

Please find below the proposed agenda for the CCWG-Accountability call on 30
December at 19:00 UTC. I will send to call details to the Notify list. 

 

Proposed Agenda:

1. Welcome & Roll Call & Statements of Interest

2. Membership Updates 

3. Work Area Updates

WA1 - David Maher / Samantha Eisner

WA2 - Steve DelBianco

WA3 - Avri Doria

WA4 - Eric Brunner-Williams

4. Coordination between CWG and ICG

5. Expectations for the F2F

6. AOB

7. Closing Remarks

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