[CCWG-ACCT] A message from the Co-Chairs

Greg Shatan gregshatanipc at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 03:50:47 UTC 2016


The next call is on 23 February at 0600 UTC.

On Friday, February 19, 2016, Kavouss Arasteh <kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Co-Chairs
>
> Here it is 0340UTC and I am still following all exchanged e-mails.
>
> Some of them promising and some other disappointing
>
> The Co-Chairs decision to hold on the forwarding the final report till the
> issue of threshold is resolved is the most WISE and the most appropriate
> decision.
>
> I fully support it .
>
> Good luck for CCWG call on 26 Feb.
>
> Regards
>
> Kavouss
>
> 2016-02-20 1:19 GMT+01:00 León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','leonfelipe at sanchez.mx');>>:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> As you are aware, we intended to publish our Final Report today (19
>> February 2016) for Chartering Organization consideration. We are ready to
>> do so, except for one issue where we would like to consider options as a
>> full group.
>>
>> There is, still, ongoing discussion on the issue of thresholds for Board
>> removal in Recommendation #2, which raised concerns in our report after we
>> came to a compromise on Board consideration of GAC Advice (Recommendation
>> #11). Since then, we have tried to propose compromise text that would be
>> acceptable by different groups (c.f. the 12 February and 17 February
>> drafts, posted at https://community.icann.org/x/iw2AAw).
>>
>> We received comments on this issue, and in some cases, minority
>> statements, from members and participants in the ALAC, GAC, GNSO, and the
>> Board. Earlier today, ICANN Chairman, Steve Crocker, posted a note,
>> apparently on behalf of the Icann Board, outlining Board concerns with the
>> latest attempt at compromise text proposed on 17 February:
>> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2016-February/011056.html.
>>
>>
>> While these last minute interventions are deeply disappointing for those
>> of us who worked extremely hard, within the group and within their
>> respective communities, to build bridges and promote compromise, our main
>> target and duty remains to achieve a stable level of consensus, respecting
>> the bottom-up, multistakeholder nature of the process.
>>
>> It is fortunate that the Board provided this input before we published
>> the report, since it enables us to assess the potential consequences of a
>> Board disagreement later in the process.
>>
>> We believe this issue must be discussed before sending our Final Report
>> to Chartering Organizations. At the very least, we would like the
>> opportunity to discuss a way forward and process as full group on next
>> Tuesday’s CCWG-Accountability call at 06:00 UTC. There are many options and
>> directions the group can take at this stage, each with different
>> implications and considerations, and these options should be discussed as a
>> group.
>>
>> Until the Tuesday call, let’s keep open channels of communication on our
>> mailing list and work towards a solution. We will also reach out to the
>> Chartering Organizations to inform them of the change in our schedule.
>>
>> As co-chairs, we renew our call upon every Member, upon every
>> Participant, our call upon community leaders especially in the ICANN Board,
>> in the GNSO and in the GAC to step away from confronting each other, to
>> engage constructively and recognize each other’s value to the
>> multistakeholder model. If you believe that the multistakeholder model can
>> deliver, now is the time to act accordingly.
>>
>>  Thank you,
>>
>>
>> Thomas, León, Mathieu
>>
>> *CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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