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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Great stuff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Phil Corwin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 8, 2015 9:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Blog post on the Accountability work headed to Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Oct 8, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Steve DelBianco <<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t apologize. Instead, just accept our gratitude for the effort and integrity you have contributed to this process for nearly a year. Your blog post is both sobering and inspiring. Our task remains, as you say:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">The “what” is ensuring the Internet community, able to organise through ICANN’s open groupings, can hold a corporation with hundreds of staff, hundreds
of millions of dollars, tight links with the American government, a monopoly ability to extract rents from the domain name industry, and a natural institutional desire to be as free of restraint as it can – can hold all that to account, given the huge imbalance
of power, knowledge, resources that tilt the playing field of accountability entirely in ICANN’s favour.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Jordan Carter<br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:19 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Accountability Cross Community<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[CCWG-ACCT] Blog post on the Accountability work headed to Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Apologies for the interruption to your inbox. I've been doing a bit of work trying to make sense of all the events in the ICANN accountability debate. I wrote up
a chronology of that, which is available attached to this post. A blog post with my reflections is below. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Whatever part of the community you are from, and whatever your view on the substance of the debates we are having in the CCWG, I hope you can stand up in support
of the multistakeholder model at this challenging moment. There is a lot at stake if this accountability effort fails, and the risk of that is not high but it is increasing. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See many of you in Dublin next week!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:black">ICANN Accountability - the chronology and Dublin thoughts</span><span style="font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">9 October - at <a href="https://internetnz.nz/blog/icann-accountability-chronology-and-dublin-thoughts" target="_blank">https://internetnz.nz/blog/icann-accountability-chronology-and-dublin-thoughts</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">You’ve probably had an experience in your life of being part of a difficult or complicated project – sometimes things go into a blur, or after months or years you find it
hard to remember the order of significant events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Well, the debate regarding ICANN’s accountability is nothing if not complicated (not to say difficult!). I’ve been a participant in it as a member of the Working Group representing
country-code domains since December 2014, and even over not quite a year, things get a bit blurry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">To help me, and possibly you, I decided to pull together a short chronology of some of the key milestones. Dates of proposals, significant moments in the project, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">You can review (and critique) the chronology here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031"><a href="https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/2015-10-09-ICANN-accty-chrono.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">.pdf</span></a><br>
<a href="https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/2015-10-09-ICANN-accty-chrono.docx" target="_blank"><span style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">.docx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">I didn’t expect that seeing this story in one short place would trigger some new insights, or remind me of some old ones, but it did. Here are some of them:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">Astonishing progress:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"> since the end of last year, and the demise of ICANN’s resistance to
a community-led accountability process, the Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) has made huge progress. It assessed previous suggested accountability mechanisms; built requirements for a new settlement; devised models that could deliver; took feedback in
good faith and worked together to overcome problems exposed in public debate. The Second Draft Proposal of the group is workable, though it does not enjoy consensus in the ICANN community yet.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">Consistent resistance and delay:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"> the powers-that-be at ICANN have resisted community-driven
accountability reforms throughout this process. The multi-month delay to establishing the CCWG speaks volumes. The group’s work would have concluded next week in Dublin if we’d had the few more months back in 2014. I say that not to lament it, but to make
it clear where responsibility lies for the current time pressure. Hint: the CCWG isn’t responsible.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">The rightness of multistakeholderism: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">the community has followed a true multistakeholder
process. Compromise, diligence, thoroughness and a willingness to compromise and think outside the box – all these have been central to the work of the group. That work process is hard to maintain and has been seriously challenged by the ICANN Board alleging
a right to insert “red lines” into part of the debate – on the critical matters of enforcement. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">Those interventions place the credibility of the multistakeholder process at risk.
In doing so, the ICANN Board isn’t only putting the accountability reform process under pressure it doesn’t need, it is delaying the group’s ability to complete its task (others have more forceful views - see the note by William Currie, an Advisor to the CCWG
appointed by the Public Experts Group last year, <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-October/006410.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">here</span></a>). The follow on consequence: the
IANA Stewardship transition itself is delayed, a consequence only a very few people would celebrate (and I am not one of them). </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">Proof of need:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"> looking over the short history of the current debate gives ample evidence
of why the reforms demanded by the community are required. Without the spur provided by the IANA Stewardship transition, this opportunity would never have opened up. We should be grateful to the Obama administration for the chance provided to build a long
term, responsible framework for ICANN accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif">Some welcome flexibility:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif"> a year ago, if you’d thought you would hear ICANN saying it would
welcome binding arbitration, the ability to remove Board directors, a community right of veto in bylaws changes – many would have stared at you and laughed. If you’d suggested a community group working in open multistakeholder ways could deliver a work output
the quality the CCWG has matched, the same stares and laughs. But both have happened. Things have moved.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Everyone involved with or watching this process will have different insights, or may agree happily or disagree sharply with mine. I offer them up in public as part of my own
commitment to accountability: it is reasonable for people involved in the conversation to share their thinking. In any case, my own thought processes work best with dialogue – not with solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">ICANN is on the verge of historic, meaningful and positive reform. The Numbers and Protocols communities, watching this process through gritted teeth and very keen for the
transition to go ahead, can hopefully celebrate what is happening. With ICANN having a curious dual role for the Names community (policy forum and IANA functions operator), there has been no alternative to making accountability improvements now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">(To my technical community friends - if there’s any doubt in your mind about why we need change – review the chronology, remember the pushback, remember what you guys faced
early this year.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">We’re all close to the end of the debate. You can sense it – proposals are crystallising, timeframes are compressing, volunteers are at the end of reasonable commitments of
time and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">The imperatives now are to see things through: to stick with the multistakeholder process that listens to all perspectives but gives nobody a right of veto; the accountability
framework the community requires to accept the transition going ahead; and the changes to ICANN’s culture that will flow from a new accountability settlement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Dublin is a week away. The elephant in the room (the CCWG’s proposal and the ICANN Board’s counterproposal for the way to crystallise accountability powers) will need to be
resolved, or eaten, or thrown in the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">My preference is of course for the product of the multistakeholder process, the model the CCWG has developed in public and with the involvement of all stakeholders. But unlike
some others, I am not proclaiming bottom lines on any of the “how” – it is the “what,” the requirements and ability to meet them, that matter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">The “what” is ensuring the Internet community, able to organise through ICANN’s open groupings, can hold a corporation with hundreds of staff, hundreds of millions of dollars,
tight links with the American government, a monopoly ability to extract rents from the domain name industry, and a natural institutional desire to be as free of restraint as it can – can hold all that to account, given the huge imbalance of power, knowledge,
resources that tilt the playing field of accountability entirely in ICANN’s favour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Beyond the "elephant," there are lots of other details that need to be sorted out. It all matters – NTIA have been clear the proposal has to be bullet proof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">In the end though, if there isn’t an accountability settlement that achieves consensus, then there isn’t going to be a proposal bullet proof or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">No accountability proposal – no IANA Stewardship Transition proposal. No transition proposal – no transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">No transition? All those risks the transition is designed to head off come back to life. And the multistakeholder approach discredited to boot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Those are the stakes on the table as we head to Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Two final thoughts: where there’s a will there’s a way. And as an old high-school teacher used to say to me,
“not easy, not optional.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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