<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>The big question for me is "to what extent can/should the community keep ICANN staff directly accountable". If the board cannot keep the CEO accountable and the CEO in turn cannot keep his/her staff accountable, then i think it is the board that the community should use all its fire-power against while i expect board to perform its "konfu" on the CEO as well. ;-)<br><br></div>I am not sure taking ICANN staff directly down the legal/IRP path as suggested will be an healthy thing to do. I think proper means of channelling grievances between a/some community member and staff needs to happen through the appropriate organisational hierarchy and the leadership of the organisation should ensure justice is done...i don't think such process should be lead by the community.<br><br></div>Regards<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Kieren McCarthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kieren@kierenmccarthy.com" target="_blank">kieren@kierenmccarthy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">One of the key things that Strickling mentioned in his accountability blog post was that this group needed to devise accountability mechanisms for ICANN's staff.<div><br></div><div>There is a great example this week of how the staff currently lives outside any form of effective accountability in the unredacted version of the .Africa IRP decision.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/icann_dot_africa_review/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/icann_dot_africa_review/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Not only did ICANN staff - its head of operations, no less - intervene in favor of one applicant over another, but when that fact was repeatedly referenced in what is supposed to be an independent review report, the staff decided they would remove that information before the report was published.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a culture of impunity.</div><div><br></div><div>What I would like to see introduced to ICANN is the ability to call for hearings/inquiries into issues. Similar to how Congress can hold inquiries into something, compel witnesses to appear, compel the release of information, fact-find and produce a report.</div><div><br></div><div>Having read all the various legal advice provided by the independent legal experts, it strikes me that the ability for the community to establish such an inquiry and then compel witnesses and evidence to appear is not difficult to set up.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kieren</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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