[CCWG-ACCT] Update on Board discussions on the CCWG Update

Dr Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.NA
Tue Nov 24 06:19:52 UTC 2015


I will take any opportunity I get to DISAGREE with Herrn Professor Dr
Mueller.

I AGREE with Herrn Professor Dr Mueller.

el

On 2015-11-24 08:13, Greg Shatan wrote:
> I will take any opportunity I get to agree with Milton.  I agree with
> Milton.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com
> <mailto:psc at vlaw-dc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     +1 on inspection rights.
> 
>     Without adequate transparency there can be no meaningful accountability.
> 
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>     <mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org>] On Behalf
>     Of Mueller, Milton L
>     Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 12:08 AM
>     To: Bruce Tonkin; Accountability Cross Community
>     Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Update on Board discussions on the CCWG Update
> 
>     Bruce:
>     Happy to see that the board comment that "Care should be taken not
>     to introduce language into the Bylaws that reduces that clarity
>     [about what constitutes GAC 'advice'] and returns the Board to a
>     position of having to negotiate among various positions in its
>     consultation processes."
> 
>     >
>     > .     Inspection Rights and Transparency (page 12)
>     >
>     > The Board remains concerned about the insertion of inspection rights
>     > premised on the fact that they would have been available under a
>     > member structure.  The Board has already agreed that the issues of
>     > transparency,
> 
>     I am surprised by the resistance we are seeing to what I thought was
>     a fairly clear bargain: in exchange for yielding on membership,
>     which included inspection rights, the CCWG expected stronger
>     transparency and inspection rights in the Sole Designator model. As
>     has been noted many times in our deliberations, SD relies heavily,
>     if not near-exclusively, on the threat of board member removal, and
>     it would be impossible to have the information needed to utilize
>     that enforcement power without enhanced transparency and inspection
>     rights. Those enhancements are not going to come from vague promises
>     to "review" the DIDP in WS2 or from additional information about the
>     finances.  I would caution the board not to attempt to evade this
>     point by calling for additional specifications of " what sort of
>     information is expected to be requested, for what purpose and by
>     whom," as those things be specified in advance.
> 
>     > .     Removal of the Board (individual/entire) (pages 21-23)
>     >
>     > The Board believes that the rationale for the removal of the entire
>     > board or an individual Board member must be clearly set out, for
>     > example, through reference to a cause for removal that could be
>     set out in a pre-service letter.
> 
>     This approach was considered and rejected by the CCWG.
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