<div dir="ltr">Hi all<div><br></div><div>I attach for you a chronology of the accountability debate, starting with ICANN's decision to push towards the NetMundial event in September 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>My motivation was a personal one - I found myself losing track of the order of events, and I had a discomforting feeling that some of the reasons for us being under significant time pressure now were not of our making.</div><div><br></div><div>The chronology stands for itself and is fully referenced. It's my hope to have a blog post out about it today if possible. Whatever you think of my observations below, if you find errors in the document, I'd love to hear about them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For our CCWG given where we are, I'd offer a couple of observations inspired by recalling the history:</div><div><br></div><div>* the opposition of ICANN to a community driven accountability process (from March to October 2014 - CCWG was only chartered in Nov 2014) is the cause of our current time pressure.</div><div><br></div><div>* the multistakeholder process the CCWG has been following is the only one that can drive to consensus. Development of separate alternative proposals by different players won't work.</div><div><br></div><div>* critical to success is the ability to synthesise feedback and evolve new models. This CCWG has done that significantly twice - in establishing its First Draft and Second Draft proposals, where it moved from individual memberships to a membership vehicle - while ensuring the proposal is able to deliver on the accountability requirements the community has established. </div><div><br></div><div>* Efforts to do this a third time are placed at risk by the Board's actions in the past few weeks with its red lines tactic.</div><div><br></div><div>* it's not possible to synthesise and create new models to resolve differences except in an environment of trust and confidence that the outcome of such a dialogue will be respected. Only one party is obstructing that process - we all know what it is. That party needs to change its behaviour, and publicly commit to doing so as well. Otherwise, the entirety of the CCWG's work is at risk. </div><div><br></div><div>Food for thought.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Jordan</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br>+64-4-495-2118 (office) | +64-21-442-649 (mob)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Web: <a href="http://www.internetnz.nz" target="_blank">www.internetnz.nz</a> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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