<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have we discussed the <b class=""><u class="">inner checks and balances within</u></b> ICANN at all?<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">While the GDD will be looking to make a lot of money from the gTLD program, the compliance and oversight functions, as well as the policy making functions may be easily in conflict with financial objectives of the Corporation.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 22, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Jordan Carter <<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" class="">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's an important question that I am not sure we've spent much time on yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">bests</div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2015 at 11:34, Arun Sukumar <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:arun.sukumar@nludelhi.ac.in" target="_blank" class="">arun.sukumar@nludelhi.ac.in</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">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. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On process:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On substance:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Taking off from Q1, is the CCWG evaluating the future capacity of ICANN to be truly representative in the years to come?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">arun</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">-<div class="">@<a href="http://www.twitter.com/arunmsukumar" target="_blank" class="">arunmsukumar</a></div><div class="">Senior Fellow, <a href="http://www.ccgdelhi.org/" target="_blank" class="">Centre for Communication Governance</a></div><div class="">National Law University, New Delhi</div><div class="">Ph: <a href="tel:%2B91-9871943272" value="+919871943272" target="_blank" class="">+91-9871943272</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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