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<div>As your CSG Rep on the <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/CCWG+on+Enhancing+ICANN+Accountability">
CCWG-Accountability</a>, here’s an update:</div>
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<div>CCWG has 3 work parties: Community Empowerment, Reviews, and Stress Tests. </div>
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<div>On <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/WP1+--+Community+Empowerment">
community empowerment</a>, we’re looking at giving the ‘community’ (AC/SO/SG reps) power to veto board budgets, veto board decisions, and veto bylaws changes. </div>
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<div>And we <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/wp1/attachments/20150304/bc45c956/Draft1-AoCAccountabilityMechanismsStevev5-0001.pdf">drafted bylaws language</a> to move the 4 reviews required in the
<i><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/affirmation-of-commitments-2009-09-30-en?routing_type=path">Affirmation of Commitments</a></i> into ICANN Bylaws. The community would get the role of appointing review team members, of course. </div>
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<div>We also drafted changes to ICANN bylaws so the board only has to give 'due deference' to GAC advice when it gives 'Consensus advice’. GAC is thinking that one over…</div>
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<div>On <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/WP2+--+Review+and+Redress">
review/redress</a>, we’re looking to give the ‘community’ (AC/SO/SG reps) standing and access to Reconsideration and Independent Reviews. </div>
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<div>Also looking at changes to bylaws/articles that would restrict ICANN to its technical mission.</div>
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<div>And we’ve taken <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/ST-WP+--+Stress+Tests+Work+Party">
25 Stress Tests</a> and applied them to what the CWG and CCWG are presently considering (attached). </div>
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<div>We can’t apply stress tests definitively until we have a defined mechanism/structure to test, but we’ve done our best with the proposed mechanisms at this point. </div>
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<div>Please note that several stress tests apply to work of the CWG (#1, 2, 21, 19, 20, 25) </div>
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Both the CWG-Transition and CCWG-Accountability are having a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul March 22-24.</div>
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<div>Questions and suggestions welcome. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Steve</div>
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<div>Steve DelBianco</div>
<div>Executive Director</div>
<div>NetChoice</div>
<div><a href="http://www.netchoice.org/">http://www.NetChoice.org</a> and <a href="http://blog.netchoice.org/">http://blog.netchoice.org</a></div>
<div>+1.703.615.6206</div>
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