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As discussed in the BC meeting on Tuesday, I was invited to a panel on Enhancing ICANN Accountability, Thursday 8:30 – 9:45 in Los Angeles Room. ICANN staff want us to describe the 'Stress tests’ proposed in the BC comments (<a href="http://www.bizconst.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BC-reply-comment-on-Enhancing-ICANN-Accountability-FINAL.pdf">link</a>,
starting bottom of page 8 and at <a href="http://BizConst.org/StressTests">http://BizConst.org/StressTests</a> ).</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">I</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> will show just 2 slides in the 5 minutes allotted us:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Slide1 : What are Stress Tests, and why use them?</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Definition: A plausible and challenging scenario that helps us design and test a new mechanism or process.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Plausible -- not Probable. A stress test is something we believe could happen.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Lets us be creative about future scenarios <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Gives critics a productive way to express their concerns, so we can develop responses. </font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Helps us design an ICANN for the future</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Slide: Here are 10 Stress Tests the BC proposed in June. </font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">noting: All these affect overall ICANN accountability – once USG relinquishes the contract.</font></div>
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1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ICANN cancels the Affirmation of Commitments</div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Corporation changes its legal presence</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>ICANN becomes financially insolvent</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>ICANN greatly expands scope</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>ICANN adds a new TLD despite security concerns</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>GAC changes to majority voting</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Governments move censorship to the core</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Court bars re-delegation based on contract breach</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">9.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Court bocks a delegation</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">10.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>ccTLD re-delegation dispute</font></div>
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The light blue Stress Tests are those that involve IANA directly. </div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Let’s focus on just two of them: numbers 1 and 10.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">#1. Let’s say that ICANN unilaterally cancels the Affirmation of Commitments, which it may do with just 120 days notice. Presently, the discipline imposed by needing to win the IANA contract forces ICANN to adhere to the only
external accountability it has today: the Affirmation of Commitments. </font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">If Affirmation reviews are to remain part of the new ICANN accountability framework, we need to address this stress test in the IANA transition and Enhanced Accountability WGs.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">How? Guess we could amend the AoC without an option for ICANN to quit. But still a bilateral.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Guess we could try getting +100 governments and others to sign along with USG. ‘web of Affirmations’. But that’s not going to be easy.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The BC recommended we bring the AoC reviews into the ICANN Bylaws. </font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">#10. Let’s say a government telecom minister instructs ICANN to re-delegate a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), but there are vocal objections from most registrants and user communities in the country concerned. </font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Faced with this re-delegation request, what response options and measures could be available to the entity charged with maintenance of the root zone – presumably ICANN?</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">That’s one for the Naming Functions group of the IANA Transition WG.</font></div>
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