[Ccwg-auctionproceeds] New Deadline - 26 July 2019 - input on updated draft Final Report and outstanding questions

[Alan Greenberg]

I believe we need more clarity on describing the Mechanisms in section 4.

Mechanism A: The current wording is "An internal department dedicated to grant solicitation, implementation and evaluation is created within the ICANN organization . All grants are listed in ICANN's annual tax recordings."

The term "evaluation" is unclear. We have stated unequivocally that under no conditions would ICANN employees evaluate applications, and that function MUST be done by an external group. Therefore I presume the word "evaluations" here is evaluating whether projects were successful or not. This is a valid comments, but it is something that we have largely been silent on elsewhere in this report, so I am not sure why it is mentioned here. Regardless, it needs to be crystal clear that the application evaluations will not be done "internally"

For "All grants are listed in ICANN's annual tax recordings.", I do not believe that the expression "annual tax recordings" has any meaning. Perhaps it was supposed to be "annual tax returns". But I note that what is in or not in ICANN's annual tax returns is a matter for the US Government to decide and not ICANN. Whether a $50,000,000 grant or a $20,000 grant will be listed is not our decision to make. Perhaps we should simply require that all grants must be publicly documented. But should that not be the case REGARDLESS of the mechanism???

Mechanism B: I presume the phrase "established at a public charity" should be "established as a public charity". I do not understand why the issue of tax benefits is being raised as in our case all of the money is coming form ICANN which does not pay any taxes. So it SOUNDS like a benefit but is in fact meaningless in our case.

It should be made clear that at this point, it is not clear what parts would be outsourced and what will be kept within ICANN (except the application evaluation which must be outsourced).

Mechanism C: It is not clear here that the level of actual independence from ICANN will rest entirely on how independent the Board is. If it is largely (or anything other than a minority) controlled by ICANN (or the ICANN Board), then it is not independent) and we have not discussed this issue at all. ICANN's control should be on its fiduciary requirement which the Foundation would be subject to under contract, and not on how the operation is managed or what decisions it makes.

Alan



At 17/07/2019 02:24 PM, Emily Barabas wrote:
Dear All,

In response to requests from several CCWG members to extend the deadline for reviewing the attached documents, your input is now requested no later than Friday, 26 July.

The next CCWG call is still scheduled for 31 July at 14.00 UTC.

Kind regards,
Emily

From: Ccwg-auctionproceeds <ccwg-auctionproceeds-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Marika Konings <marika.konings at icann.org>
Date: Friday, 28 June 2019 at 17:20
To: "ccwg-auctionproceeds at icann.org" <ccwg-auctionproceeds at icann.org>
Subject: [Ccwg-auctionproceeds] For your review - updated draft Final Report and outstanding questions

Dear All,

Following the new gTLD Auction Proceeds meeting that took place on Wednesday 26 June, please find attached for your review the latest version of the draft Final Report. Also attached you will find the questions for CCWG input which have been updated to reflect the items that were discussed and/or resolved during Wednesday’s meeting.

As a reminder, you are expected to review the draft Final Report as well as the questions for input by Friday, 19 July at the latest. By that date, you are expected to:


  *   Have identified any issues that require further CCWG consideration or discussion that were not already been flagged in the questions document;
  *   Have reviewed the issues and questions identified in the questions document that were not considered during Wednesday’s meeting and flag which ones of these do need further consideration and/or provide responses to these questions that the CCWG should consider further;
  *   Have provided any edits to the draft Final Report (minor edits like grammar corrections can be sent directly to staff, any substantive edits should be shared with the list).


As a reminder, the next new gTLD Auction Proceeds CCWG meeting will be scheduled for 31 July at 14.00 UTC.

Thanks,

Marika

Marika Konings
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