[CCWG-ACCT] Global Public Interest discussion

[Nigel Roberts]

> The benchmark for the GPI, insofar as it is relevant at all in the CCWG,
> is that it is in the GPI for ICANN to perform its mission, and _/only/_
> its mission, properly. It is also in the GPI for ICANN to be accountable
> to its stakeholders. Can we agree on that? IMHO, that’s really all we
> need to say about the GPI.
>

I would agree.

I'd also go further and suggest that this is in the public interest and 
the qualifier 'global' is entirely otiose.

I cannot think that any public authority that is a member of the 
Governmental Advisory Committee could disagree with the proposition that

"(a) it is in the /public interest/ for ICANN to perform its mission, 
and only its mission, properly.

(b) It is also in the /public interest/ for ICANN to be accountable to 
its stakeholders."

(Otherwise, it would not be part of the GAC, surely)