[CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-ACCT 21-day Public Comment Is Live

Tue Dec 1 17:21:08 UTC 2015

Maybe we can come up with a plan to make ICANN more accountable??

.. oh wait ...

N.

On 12/01/2015 05:07 PM, Robin Gross wrote:
> Dear Hilary,
>
> I note that my dissenting opinion was sent on 29 November and was not
> included in the report upon the report’s publication on 1 December.
>
> Moreover, the report has incorrectly stated that there are no dissenting
> opinions, however the chairs acknowledged this dissenting opinion during
> the CCWG meeting on 2 November.  Why did the report knowingly make a
> false statement about no dissent and why has the dissenting opinion
> still not been included with the report?  I find the delay in fixing
> this to be unacceptable.  If ICANN can’t even be trusted to honestly
> report on the accountability recommendations, we really have our work
> cut out for us.
>
> Robin
>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *From: *Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>>
>> *Date: *November 29, 2015 at 3:40:45 PM PST
>> *To: *Thomas Rickert <thomas at rickert.net <mailto:thomas at rickert.net>>
>> *Cc: *León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx
>> <mailto:leonfelipe at sanchez.mx>>, "Mathieu Weill
>> (Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr <mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>)"
>> <Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr <mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>>,
>> "accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>> <mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org> Community"
>> <accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>> <mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Minority statements inclusion in report*
>>
>> Thanks, Thomas.  See below.
>>
>> *Dissenting Opinion of Member Robin Gross (GNSO-NSCG)*
>>
>> The CCWG-Accountability make a number of helpful recommendations to
>> improve organizational accountability at ICANN, however one aspect of
>> the plan is deeply flawed: changing the role of ICANN's Governmental
>> Advisory Committee (GAC) from purely an “advisory” role to a “decision
>> making” role over fundamental matters at ICANN, including its
>> governance.  Consequently the proposal marginalizes the role of
>> Supporting Organizations (SO’s) compared to today’s ICANN governance
>> structure.  The degree of governmental empowerment over ICANN
>> resulting from the proposal’s community mechanism is dangerous to the
>> success of the proposal’s political acceptance as well as to its
>> ultimate impact on a free and open Internet.
>>
>> The creation of a community mechanism to hold ICANN accountable on key
>> issues made a critical error by departing from the existing power
>> balance between SO’s and AC’s as determined by relative board
>> appointments.  Instead, the proposed community mechanism elevates the
>> AC’s relative to the SO’s compared with today’s balance on ICANN's
>> board of directors, which does not currently provide a decision making
>> role to GAC, and which retains the primacy of the Supporting
>> Organizations on key decisions, particularly those within the SO’s
>> mandate.   The devaluing of the Supporting Organizations in ICANN’s
>> key decisions was a common theme in both previous public comment
>> periods, however the recommendations not only failed to address this
>> widespread concern, but went even further in devaluing SO’s in the
>> community mechanism in the 3rd report.  The community mechanism failed
>> to take into account the appropriate roles and responsibilities of the
>> various SO’s and AC’s, and the dangers inherent in changing those
>> roles with a “one size fits all” approach to critical decision making.
>>
>> Additionally, I object to the proposed departure from ICANN’s typical
>> 30-day public comment period on the 3rd report for
>> CCWG-Accountability.  The 3rd report’s public comment only allows for
>> 9 days of public comment after the language translations are scheduled
>> to be published, which is far too short of a public comment period for
>> a report of this significance and with so many important changes since
>> previous drafts.
>>
>> Robin Gross
>>
>>> On Nov 29, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Thomas Rickert <thomas at rickert.net
>>> <mailto:thomas at rickert.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Robin,
>>> as discussed during the last CCWG call, minority statements will be
>>> included in the report as appendices if and when they are received.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> ---
>>> rickert.net <http://rickert.net/>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 29.11.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org
>>> <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>>:
>>>
>>>> Dear Co-Chairs,
>>>>
>>>> I have still not received a response to this request.  What is the
>>>> process for submitting minority statements?  Please advise.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Robin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 11, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org
>>>>> <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Co-Chairs,
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please advise on the proposed schedule and process for
>>>>> ensuring that minority statements will be included in the report
>>>>> [of the executive summary]?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Robin
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>
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Hillary Jett <hillary.jett at icann.org
>> <mailto:hillary.jett at icann.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> Thank you for the note. We will be updating the Appendix tomorrow with
>> minority statements received since 29 November.
>>
>> Best,
>> Hillary
>>
>> --
>> *Hillary Jett*
>> Communications Coordinator
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>
>> Mobile: +1 (202) 674-3403
>> Email: hillary.jett at icann.org <mailto:hillary.jett at icann.org>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org <mailto:robin at ipjustice.org>>
>> Date: Monday, November 30, 2015 at 9:21 PM
>> To: Hillary Jett <hillary.jett at icann.org <mailto:hillary.jett at icann.org>>
>> Cc: CCWG-Accountability <accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>> <mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>>, Thomas Rickert
>> <thomas at rickert.net <mailto:thomas at rickert.net>>, León Felipe Sánchez
>> Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx <mailto:leonfelipe at sanchez.mx>>, "Mathieu
>> Weill (Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr <mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>)"
>> <Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr <mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>>, Grace
>> Abuhamad <grace.abuhamad at icann.org <mailto:grace.abuhamad at icann.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-ACCT 21-day Public Comment Is Live
>>
>> Thanks, but the report still incorrectly states that there are no
>> minority opinions.  Why hasn’t the NCSG dissenting opinion been posted
>> or acknowledged in the report?  Please fix this incorrect information
>> and omission of a dissenting opinion from the report’s publication.
>>
>> Robin
>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Hillary Jett <hillary.jett at icann.org
>>> <mailto:hillary.jett at icann.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> The 21-day public comment period of the CCWG-Accountability Draft
>>> Work Stream 1 Recommendations has just been posted here:
>>> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-ccwg-accountability-proposal-2015-11-30-en.
>>> The comment period will run from November 30 through 23:59 UTC on
>>> December 21.
>>>
>>> We hope to begin receiving translations in the next 12-14 days.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Hillary
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Hillary Jett*
>>> Communications Coordinator
>>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>>
>>> Mobile: +1 (202) 674-3403
>>> Email: hillary.jett at icann.org <mailto:hillary.jett at icann.org>
>>>
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