[CCWG-ACCT] [WP1] New section - ICANN Community Assembly

[Matthew Shears]

Hi

Agree that having two entities is excessive - that said there are some 
differences, as I understand them from the texts/mails:

The ICA is supposed to " be a forum where the use of any of the powers 
is discussed across the whole ICANN community – *before* any of the 
powers are exercised."

And the PAF is "to bring together board, staff and the SO/ACs in a 
public exchange of views and questions and comments about accountability 
issues - a sort of open round table, done at an ICANN meeting once a year"

The first is about a potential exercising of a community power, the 
second is a more general discussion on accountability matters.

One could merge the two, create something with a more appropriate name 
such as ICANN Accountability Forum (as assembly sounds very top down and 
UN-like) and make it a once a year OR as appropriate (when a community 
power is contemplated being used).

Matthew

On 7/26/2015 8:09 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
> Replies. Alan
>
> At 25/07/2015 10:53 PM, Jordan Carter wrote:
>> Thank you Keith, Alan for these comments. I've attached some comments 
>> back on them. All very helpful.
>>
>> I'm sorry for the confusion around the Public Accountability Forum 
>> idea. What I was trying to suggest was that that suggestion be 
>> incorporated in the ICA so two "things" aren't being created.
>>
>> From memory, the notion of the Public Accountability Forum was to 
>> bring together board, staff and the SO/ACs in a public exchange of 
>> views and questions and comments about accountability issues - a sort 
>> of open round table, done at an ICANN meeting once a year. The point 
>> was to help build mutual accountability across the ICANN system, not 
>> just vertical accountability - helping to solve the "who watches the 
>> watchers" conundrum.
>>
>> This could easily be done under the umbrella of the ICANN Community 
>> Assembly, perhaps with supplementary attendance or speaking rights 
>> e.g. for more of the Board, maybe the SO/AC leadership as well.
>>
>> But creating it as a separate beast seems pointless....
>>
>> cheers
>> Jordan
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2015 at 06:54, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca 
>> <mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> > wrote:
>>
>>     And a bunch of comments from me.
>>
>>     Alan
>>
>>     At 25/07/2015 09:03 AM, Drazek, Keith wrote:
>>>         Thanks Jordan, this looks very good to me. I̢۪ve made a
>>>         few proposed red-lined editsits in the attached, supported
>>>         by comments. Happy to discuss further.
>>>
>>>         Regards,
>>>         Keith
>>>
>>>         From: wp1-bounces at icann.org <mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org>
>>>         [<mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org>mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org
>>>         <mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org>] On Behalf Of Jordan Carter
>>>         Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 10:57 PM
>>>         To: wp1 at icann.org <mailto:wp1 at icann.org>; Accountability
>>>         Cross Community
>>>         Subject: [WP1] New section - ICANN Community Assembly
>>>
>>>         Hi all
>>>
>>>         I have taken the draft material from an older paper about
>>>         the ICANN Community Assembly and pulled it into one place.
>>>
>>>         Please see attached and debate away!  I've tried to be clear
>>>         on its solely advisory nature, and have suggested that this
>>>         would be the forum to use for the Public Accountability
>>>         Forum suggestion made by advisors a while ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>         best,
>>>         Jordan 
>>
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