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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Mathieu, co-chairs, colleagues,<br>
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I'm pleased to see the relevance, applicability, and severity
mentioned by the co-chairs, as well as the subsequent mention of
remedies, if any, and their robustness and the mechanisms
available or necessary to address those contingencies meeting some
minimum of relevance, applicability and severity.<br>
<br>
In my reading of the input from the Board Risk Committee (BRC) I
see than much of the contributed contingencies meeting what I'd
personally thought met some minimum of relevance, applicability
and severity were present.<br>
<br>
I suggest that those items from the BRC's "Enterprise-Wide Risks"
be eliminated or deferred which begin with or contain the phrase
"possible perception", as perceptions do not, in general, give
rise to a concrete case for which an accountability question could
be answered. There are similar subjective ephemeral "risks" such
as "lack of improving trust in ..." or "failure to effectively
facilitate ...", "inconsistent communication". Again, it is
difficult to know how each of these could be converted into a
meaningful contingency.<br>
<br>
With a shortened initial set of relevant, applicable and severe
contingencies to work from the work of the participants of the
re-purposed and re-coordinatored/re-rapporteured WS4 could be more
useful to the Working Group in the large than it has been up until
now.<br>
<br>
Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
Eugene, Oregon<br>
<br>
On 1/27/15 12:32 AM, Mathieu Weill wrote:<br>
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Dear Colleagues, <br>
<br>
In anticipation of our call, I want to share two items of
relevance for the contingency discussion. <br>
<br>
1) Questions for "repurposed" WA4<br>
<br>
In Frankfurt we agreed to further investigate on the contingency
list by providing answers to several questions on each
contingency. There was discussion about the phrasing of the
questions. Below is a proposal attempting to merge the Charter
deliverable questions with our discussion :<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">How relevant is the threat to the
transition of the IANA stewardship ? ie how does the
transition affect the likelihood of the threat, or the
severeness of the consequences ? </font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Are there existing remedies in place
? Are these remedies robust ? </font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Could addressing the contingency be
achieved through amending existing accountability
mechanisms or is creating new ones necessary ? </font></li>
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2) Input from the Board Risk Committee<br>
<br>
You may remember we had requested communication from the Board
Risk Committee regarding the list of contingencies that they
consider in the course of their mission, which includes
overseeing Icann's risk management framework. <br>
<br>
Thanks to Bruce Tonkin, our Board Liaison, as well as the
members of this Committee, we have now received communication of
this list. I have attached the document. <br>
<br>
Our group should now be able to check whether the list contains
contingencies we should add. <br>
<br>
Looking forward to discussing this on our upcoming call. <br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Mathieu Weill<br>
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