[CCWG-ACCT] Staff accountability

Thu Jul 16 02:02:05 UTC 2015

I am interested in the idea of an inquiry or inspectorate function. We have
an Auditor-General in NZ who can do these things. Parliamentary scrutiny
also works but can sometimes be more politicised / less impartial.

Will read the WP3 doc with interest.

cheers
Jordan

On 16 July 2015 at 03:50, Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com> wrote:

>  “For those powers delegated to the staff without board oversight, we do
> think there should be accountability measures.”
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> Jeff, that formulation is necessary but insufficient. There also may be
> staff powers where the Board has discretionary oversight but fails to
> exercise it. And for any staff action that is unfair to a stakeholder or
> group, or that arguably violates the Bylaws, there should be means of
> redress.
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> There may well be other potential situations, but that’s what I come up
> with at the moment.
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> *From:* accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org [mailto:
> accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Jeff
> Neuman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:53 PM
> *To:* James M. Bladel
> *Cc:* Accountability Cross Community
> *Subject:* Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Staff accountability
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> All,
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> Read the document we came up with.  We do not go into personnel issues.
> One of the things we  in WP3 ask for is a clear description and delineation
> between what powers are delegated to the staff and which are reserved for
> the Board.  For those powers delegated to the staff without board
> oversight, we do think there should be accountability measures.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 15, 2015, at 6:22 PM, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com> wrote:
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>  I am also reviewing the unredacted report, and share the concerns of
> many expressed here. That said, I also do not want to go down a path where
> the Community inserts itself in to the Staff chain of authority, or starts
> to micro-manage personnel issues.
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> There are other ways to implement Staff Accountability, and I hope we can
> have a comprehensive discussion of these in Paris.
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> Safe travels to all who are en route. See you there.
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> Thank you,
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> On Jul 15, 2015, at 17:05, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    Hi,
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> The big question for me is "to what extent can/should the community keep
> ICANN staff directly accountable". If the board cannot keep the CEO
> accountable and the CEO in turn cannot keep his/her staff accountable, then
> i think it is the board that the community should use all its fire-power
> against while i expect board to perform its "konfu" on the CEO as well. ;-)
>
> I am not sure taking ICANN staff directly down the legal/IRP path as
> suggested will be an healthy thing to do. I think proper means of
> channelling grievances between a/some community member and staff needs to
> happen through the appropriate organisational hierarchy and the leadership
> of the organisation should ensure justice is done...i don't think such
> process should be lead by the community.
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> Regards
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Kieren McCarthy <
> kieren at kierenmccarthy.com> wrote:
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> One of the key things that Strickling mentioned in his accountability blog
> post was that this group needed to devise accountability mechanisms for
> ICANN's staff.
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> There is a great example this week of how the staff currently lives
> outside any form of effective accountability in the unredacted version of
> the .Africa IRP decision.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/icann_dot_africa_review/
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> Not only did ICANN staff - its head of operations, no less - intervene in
> favor of one applicant over another, but when that fact was repeatedly
> referenced in what is supposed to be an independent review report, the
> staff decided they would remove that information before the report was
> published.
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> This is a culture of impunity.
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> What I would like to see introduced to ICANN is the ability to call for
> hearings/inquiries into issues. Similar to how Congress can hold inquiries
> into something, compel witnesses to appear, compel the release of
> information, fact-find and produce a report.
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> Having read all the various legal advice provided by the independent legal
> experts, it strikes me that the ability for the community to establish such
> an inquiry and then compel witnesses and evidence to appear is not
> difficult to set up.
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> Kieren
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