[CWG-Stewardship] scope and accountability

[Mathieu Weill]

Dear Milton, Dear colleagues,

As one of the co-chairs of the drafting team for the accountability 
cross community working group, this message has obviously drawn my 
attention. Milton, you raise an issue about the inter-relation between 
the two tracks, but I must admit I have difficulties understanding both 
what triggered the discussion and what the actual consequences might be. 
This is of course because I have neither been in Frankfurt nor managed 
to read all the transcripts.

Could anyone be kind enough to point me to the relevant parts of the 
transcript ?

Best
Mathieu

Le 21/11/2014 00:15, Milton L Mueller a écrit :
>
> Jonathan
>
> I've been reading the transcripts of the Frankfurt meeting. Sorry I 
> couldn't be there to correct what I saw as an oversight or error in 
> the discussion. Although others committed the same error, it was most 
> concisely expressed in a quote from you, so that's why I am picking on 
> you ;-) You said:
>
> "Then there's the broader ICANN accountability issue, which I think is 
> beyond the remit of this committee and into the next working group, 
> except to the extent it deals with accountability for IANA functions."
>
> This implies that IANA accountability and ICANN accountability are two 
> completely separate things. The problem is that they are interrelated. 
> This interdependency is explicitly recognized in the ICG's charter:
>
> "The IANA stewardship transition process is taking place alongside a 
> parallel and related process on enhancing ICANN accountability. While 
> maintaining the accountability of Internet identifier governance is 
> central to both processes, this group's scope is focused on the 
> arrangements required for the continuance of IANA functions in an 
> accountable and widely accepted manner after the expiry of the 
> NTIA-ICANN contract. Nevertheless, the two processes are interrelated 
> and interdependent and should appropriately coordinate their work."
>
> Of course the IANA transition process cannot fix all the 
> accountability issues in ICANN's policy making process, nor do we want 
> it to. But "interrelated and interdependent" means that how we handle 
> accountability in the IANA transition will have direct impact on the 
> enhanced accountability process for the rest of ICANN. As a simple 
> example, if the IANA transition merely hands over control of IANA to 
> ICANN with no oversight or separability whatsoever, then the enhanced 
> accountability CWG will have a _/lot/_ more urgent work to do, 
> especially in track 1. On the other hand, if the IANA transition 
> process allows the community to take IANA away from a misbehaving 
> ICANN, or otherwise leverages the control of IANA to ensure that ICANN 
> complies with certain good governance requirements, then the IANA 
> transition has implications for ICANN accountability, not just IANA 
> accountability.
>
> The clear intent of the ICG charter is to recognize that both ICANN 
> and IANA accountability are related. The creation of two tracks in the 
> ICANN accountability CWG - one that must be completed before the IANA 
> transition is effectuated and the other involving reforms that can 
> wait until after the transition - is another explicit recognition of 
> the interdependency of the IANA and ICANN accountability. The simple 
> fact is that the IANA transition process _/must/_ take into account 
> the broader implications of its proposed changes for the overall 
> accountability of ICANN.
>
> I hope the CWG Frankfurt meeting's failure to recognize the 
> interdependency  this did not prevent it from making progress in other 
> areas.
>
> Milton L Mueller
>
> Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
>
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
>
> http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
>
> Internet Governance Project
>
> http://internetgovernance.org <http://internetgovernance.org/>
>
>
>
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