[CCWG-ACCT] Meeting with CCWG Advisors

[Paul Rosenzweig]

Dear Jordan

 

This is a very useful point - one, that I've been making in other contexts
for a while.  Two things we should consider requiring:

 

Conduct and publicly release a five-year forensic audit. Before entrusting
ICANN with greater autonomy, it should provide evidence that its financial
and management decisions have been sound and comport with accepted business
practices.

 

Conduct an annual outside audit. ICANN should be required to contract with
an internationally recognized auditing firm (such as Deloitte, Dettica,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, or KPMG) to conduct and publicly
release an annual audit of the organizations. The costs should be paid by
ICANN and the new IANA consortium and the auditing firm should be eligible
only if it does not have a pre-existing contract with ICANN.

 

One other point:  If, as seems to be the case, ICANN's current fee structure
creates an excess of income over expenses, thought should be given to
requiring a rebate of some sort --- it is not wise for a "non-profit" to
routinely run a surplus as that will be an inducement to expand the mission
into new areas where the $ can usefully be spent.

 

Paul

 

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From: Jordan Carter [mailto:jordan at internetnz.net.nz] 
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 9:37 AM
To: Arun Sukumar
Cc: Accountability Cross Community
Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Meeting with CCWG Advisors

 

Another question which came up in the discussion this afternoon, is the
question of "following the money" - what does economic influence translate
into in terms of power within ICANN, and how is the CCWG taking account of
this?

 

It's an important question that I am not sure we've spent much time on yet.

 

bests

Jordan

 

 

On 22 March 2015 at 11:34, Arun Sukumar <arun.sukumar at nludelhi.ac.in
<mailto:arun.sukumar at nludelhi.ac.in> > wrote:

Valerie D'Costa, an advisor to the CCWG, raised a couple of interesting and
important questions on process and substance. I hope this is a faithful
reproduction. 

 

On process:

 

1. What should be the role of advisors? Should they offer advice on the
basis of unanimity or "rough consensus", or just provide input
independently? 

 

2. Should advisors restrict their role to responding to questions that have
been flagged by the CCWG and routed through the chairs? Or should they/ can
they flag issues they feel are important - weighed from their expertise. 

 

On substance:

 

1. How is the accountability process taking stock of the evolving "global
internet community", given that it is going to be driven by numbers from the
developing world? 

 

2. Taking off from Q1, is the CCWG evaluating the future capacity of ICANN
to be truly representative in the years to come?

 

arun

 

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