[CCWG-ACCT] Minority Reports

[Drazek, Keith]

Hi Stephanie,

The second public comment period will run for 40 days. The CCWG has already taken community feedback into account from the first public comment period, from public sessions in Buenos Aires, from written feedback from the Board and the GAC, and from our recent face-to-face meeting in Paris. It will do so again following the second public comment period. Forty days should be sufficient time for all ICANN groups and interested parties to consider the proposal and give informed comment. The CCWG wants lots of public comments, and is not afraid. :-)

I think it's also important to note the proposal currently under discussion changes nothing about ICANN's day-to-day, month-to-month, or even year-to-year operations and community engagement structures. Only in very rare cases would the proposed Sole Member community empowerment model come into play. In my opinion, its existence would be a powerful deterrent to bad behavior and would therefore become an available but largely unneeded tool.

While the anticipated model establishes important checks and balances and shared authority through a community empowerment mechanism, with an escalation path to enforce them, it otherwise doesn't structurally change ICANN at all. I hope and expect this will become more clear once the proposal is posted for the next round of public consideration and comment.

I acknowledge there is more work to be done around the vote balance issue (as I said in an earlier email), but I'm confident we can resolve the issue satisfactorily following the receipt of additional community feedback.

Regards,
Keith



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On Jul 30, 2015, at 4:03 AM, Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:

As one of the folks who does not have the massive amount of time required to participate in these important negotiations, but is nevertheless very interested, may I submit the following:
1.  I agree with Chris, this is a point of fundamental fairness.  Slow down.
2.  As I think it was George S has said, there is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.  Why not negotiate for more time to complete the report?
3.  I agree with many of the points that Ed Morris has recently raised, and am truly alarmed at all the proposed structural changes that are being bandied about, without really profound discussion at the community level.  I am afraid you are going to get a lot of comments.  Please allow enough time for the public to read and decipher the report, and draft their own thoughtful responses.

Thanks to you all for the prodigious amount of work you have done.
Stephanie Perrin


On 2015-07-29 20:05, Chris LaHatte wrote:
As I see it, one of the important results of this debate is that we try to achieve consensus. It is also apparent that there is considerable interest in filing minority reports. But the deadline for doing so appears to be very tight, and I am not sure of the rationale for doing so. There is always a need for an appropriate amount of time to properly draft a dissenting report. In my view it would be unfortunate if those who wish to file minority reports were excluded by a timetable which prohibited proper consideration. I raise this as an issue of fairness, and wonder if it is possible to extend this out a little further.

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