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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>+1 or more!<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Paul Rosenzweig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweigesq@redbranchconsulting.com"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>O: +1 (202) 547-0660<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>M: +1 (202) 329-9650<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>VOIP: +1 (202) 738-1739<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Skype: paul.rosenzweig1066<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><a href="http://www.redbranchconsulting.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=9"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>Link to my PGP Key</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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'> Aikman-Scalese, Anne [mailto:AAikman@lrrlaw.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 9, 2015 8:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Greg Shatan' <gregshatanipc@gmail.com>; Paul Rosenzweig <paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com><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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure the current stance of the Board, i.e. “This transition won’t happen unless you drop the Sole Member and the Sole Designator approach” can be characterized as “participation” with the community. I think the Board has said, “We reject the CCWG Proposal as it relates to the mechanism of enforceability of the Accountability measures.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Leon has also pointed out, once again, that enforceability under the MEM proposal involves either individuals taking action to enforce (not fair) or deciding “after the fact” that the MEM Issues Group will form an unincorporated association for the purpose of enforcement after an objectionable action by the Board or a director. In the latter case, according to CCWG counsel, the unincorporated association may not have standing since the unincorporated association would not have existed at the time the objectionable Board or director action occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>This is why Sidley/Adler keep explaining to us that the powers specified by the CWG-Stewardship Final Report are simply not assured of being enforceable under the MEM model. This is not rocket science.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Attention from this reality of practical unenforceability in the MEM model has been deflected by the Board’s focus on asking Jones Day to opine on the subject of binding arbitration orders being enforceable in court. Again, you have to commence and complete binding arbitration before you can enforce the order in court. If you make individuals initiate the action, it’s way too much political pressure and individual risk. If you require them to form an unincorporated association to enforce after the fact, then they likely don’t have standing to arbitrate because the unincorporated association did not exist at the time the objectionable action occurred . So in fact, you have a huge deterrent and “chilling effect” against ever being able to commence an arbitration proceeding, especially since under the MEM model, that requires FULL consensus, i.e. <u>unanimous</u> vote for all types of community enforcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Sidley/ Adler have made it clear that the Board’s concerns about Community Enforcement Action “running wild” can be addressed through the establishment of thresholds and that these can vary in relation to the action sought to be taken, e.g. whether it’s budget, operating plan, strategic plan, and or removal of directors. I assume these can also vary according to how many SOs and ACs are participating in the sole member for the purpose of achieving some level of consensus as to any particular community power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>In the single member model, the Community gets to take action and then the Board can object to that action and have that examined. The threshold for taking action can be different in each area. For example, you could require unanimity to dump the whole Board. It seems to me the VERY SIGNIFICANT difference is timing and that this is a very significant aspect of enforceability. By way of example, if you establish a unanimous threshold for dumping the whole Board, then in the single member model, if the single member votes unanimously to dump the whole Board, it happens and new Board members get appointed and then the Board follows the objection procedures. In the MEM model, if the Community wants to dump the whole Board, individual SO/AC leaders are forced to individually file an arbitration proceeding, then the opposing parties argue over who the best arbitrators will be, then everyone disagrees and also finds that the arbitrators they want are not available for months. The dispute drags on forever. The Board remains as it was (unremoved) and the Community suffers through the arbitration the same way we suffered through the .africa IRP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The Board apparently takes the view that the MEM constitutes adequate enforcement in light of the CWG-Stewardship requirements. I do not really see it. As to why the Board cannot see its way clear to participating with the Community to establish reasonable restrictions on the powers of a Single Member, that strikes me as stubbornness. The notion that the multistakeholder community is not sufficiently accountable is simply not credible given that the Board has been endorsing policy made by this very community for years, not only Consensus Policy a to Contracted Parties, but the entire range of policies adopted in the new gTLD program. No one on the Board said, “It would be dangerous and destabilizing if we were to authorize the launch of a thousand new gTLDs because the Community is not sufficiently represented in the policy-making process and the SOs and ACs aren’t accountable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Anne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=84 rowspan=7 valign=top style='width:.7in;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=150 height=62 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D10321.D6783020"></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=444 valign=top style='width:3.7in;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Anne E. 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class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=24 valign=top style='width:.2in;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'></td><td width=31 valign=bottom style='width:18.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Shatan<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 09, 2015 2:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Rosenzweig<br><b>Cc:</b> Accountability Cross Community<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Blog post on the Accountability work headed to Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I think Fadi would say that the statement is accurate and that current events fit under the following part of his statement:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> if we have views on that proposal, we should participate with the community. </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Greg</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>(speaking only for myself)</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Paul Rosenzweig <<a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jordan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>This is a magnificent effort for which you are to be commended. I have two modest amendments to your timeline to make – </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>First, you note the testimony before the Senate in February 2015. I think it is worth noting the express commitment from the CEO of ICANN: Senator Thune asked whether the ICANN Board would “send a proposal to NTIA that lessens the Board’s power or authority?” Fadi Cheade responded, “We will if the community and the stakeholders present us with a proposal. We will give it to NTIA, and we committed already that we will not change the proposal, that if we have views on that proposal, we should participate with the community. Once that proposal comes from our stakeholders, we will pass it on to NTIA as is.” Exchange available at <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-September/005263.html" target="_blank">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-September/005263.html</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Second, you note the July 2015 House testimony of A/S Strickling and CEO Cheade and say that “no objections” were made to the idea of membership. That is true, as far as it goes, but I find another exchange at that hearing far more significant to your story:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>According to Assistant Secretary Strickling’s testmony, “ICANN has indicated that it expects to receive both the ICG transition and CCWG accountability proposals at roughly the same time and that it will forward them promptly and without modification to NTIA.” </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I read these two items as reflecting a commitment by ICANN to Congress and to the NTIA that they will forward the CCWG-A proposals “without modification” or “as is” to the NTIA when delivered by the CCWG. A fair reading of subsequent statements by the Chair of the Board (your redline FNs 40 and 45) is that ICANN’s testimony to Congress and its promise the NTIA (reflected in Strickling’s testimony) are no longer operative. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>From this I draw the same conclusions you have drawn – which is why I think this particular episode is worth noting. It also makes me wonder whether/if the CEO intends to revise his testimony.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Again, a strong +1 for putting in one place a useful history that bears directly on the issues at hand.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Paul</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Paul Rosenzweig</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:paul.rosenzweigesq@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>O: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20547-0660" target="_blank">+1 (202) 547-0660</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>M: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20329-9650" target="_blank">+1 (202) 329-9650</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>VOIP: <a href="tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20738-1739" target="_blank">+1 (202) 738-1739</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Skype: paul.rosenzweig1066</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.redbranchconsulting.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=9" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>Link to my PGP Key</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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'> Jordan Carter [mailto:<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Accountability Cross Community <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [CCWG-ACCT] Blog post on the Accountability work headed to Dublin</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hi all,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jordan</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><h1 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:2.6rem'><span style='font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";color:black'>ICANN Accountability - the chronology and Dublin thoughts</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";color:#2D3031'>You can review (and critique) the chronology here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>Astonishing progress:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></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 lfo3'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>Consistent resistance and delay:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></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 lfo3'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>The rightness of multistakeholderism: </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>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"'>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><o:p></o:p></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>Proof of need:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'>Some welcome flexibility:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B"'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";color:#2D3031'>No accountability proposal – no IANA Stewardship Transition proposal. No transition proposal – no transition.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";color:#2D3031'>Those are the stakes on the table as we head to Dublin.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.9pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm B";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.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><a href="tel:%2B64-4-495-2118" target="_blank">+64-4-495-2118</a> (office) | <a href="tel:%2B64-21-442-649" target="_blank">+64-21-442-649</a> (mob)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>jordan@internetnz.net.nz</span></a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Web: <a href="http://www.internetnz.nz" target="_blank">www.internetnz.nz</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a><br><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community" target="_blank">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray'><br>This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. 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