[CCWG-ACCT] The Board's take on the Mission Statement

[Malcolm Hutty]

On 2015-12-17 09:13, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
> Speaking personally I have no issue with also including the last two
> paragraphs in your note below which is really a limitation on what
> policies can be created and how they should be created. This text is
> really lifted from the registry and registrar agreements so ICANN has
> already committed to that. It is not something that we as a board
> directly discussed.

I must say I find it somewhat shocking that the Board returned to us
a counter-proposal that deletes such an important element without even
directly discussing the deletion.

Here in the CCWG we engage in a kind of Kremlinology, poring over the
details of Board statements to try and figure out their inner-meaning
and exactly what the Board wants or will accept. If such a deletion
is driven not by a desire to avoid that text for a motivation at which
we must guess, but instead by mere inadvertence or thoughtlessness, I am
much less inclined to give supervening weight to the Board's input.

Malcolm.

> Regards,
> 
> Bruce Tonkin
> 
> FROM: accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org
> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] ON BEHALF OF
> Burr, Becky
>  SENT: Thursday, 17 December 2015 3:00 AM
>  TO: Accountability Community
> <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
>  SUBJECT: [CCWG-ACCT] The Board's take on the Mission Statement
> 
> I have run a comparison between the Mission Statement with respect to
> names, which has been on the table since January of this year, and the
> Board's proposed substitute. In doing so, I have set aside totally the
> difficult wording issues relating to regulatory prohibition and
> contracting authority. I am also setting aside, for the moment, Alan
> G's concern regarding the bottom-up policy development language (which
> I believe is addressed through the contracting language). By any
> measure, the changes are significant. Because the fundamental role of
> the IRP is to ensure that ICANN stays within its Mission, the changes
> in the Mission statement directly impact the effectiveness of the
> "crown jewels" of this accountability exercise.
> 
> I have asked Bruce to explain what is encompassed by "the allocation
> and assignment of names in the root zone" that is not covered by
> "coordination of the development and implantation of policies."
> 
> I encourage each of you to study the side-by-side comparison attached
> to determine for yourself whether the Board's approach is consistent
> with the goals of clarifying ICANN's limited Mission.
> 
> J. BECKWITH BURR
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