[CWG-Stewardship] My concerns with the draft proposal and an alternative option

[Gomes, Chuck]

Malcolm,

I of course cannot speak for Martin nor am I trying to, but let me say that I think I have the same concerns as you regarding ICANN Accountability and I think we need to continue to ensure that the connection to what we are doing in the IANA CWG connects with overall ICANN accountability.  I think our end product must ensure that or we will have ignored one the most unified points that the community has communicated.  That said though, I don't how the PRT can enforce that as you suggest.  But we can write our proposal in such a way that it will ultimately require that.  We don't need to do that for this version though.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Hutty
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 4:23 PM
To: Martin Boyle; Phil Corwin; Olivier Crepin-Leblond; cwg-stewardship at icann.org
Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] My concerns with the draft proposal and an alternative option

On 30/11/2014 19:51, Martin Boyle wrote:
> As for the link to ICANN accountability:  with what we've got from 
> Frankfurt, I think we have a reasonable idea of what we need from 
> stream 1.  We cannot tell stream 1 what answer we want, but we can 
> tell it what issue(s) we need them to consider.  Again, if we seek to 
> engineer the whole piece, we risk simply missing the deadline and 
> trespassing on the responsibilities of others.

Martin,

This paragraph opened my eyes to a possible misunderstanding on my part of your position.

As you know, I think that resolving some (not all, but some critical) ICANN accountability issues is essential to a successful NTIA transition. After Frankfurt, I had begun to lose confidence that CCWG-Stewardship shared this view.

This was very disheartening to me. I have no objection to leaving ICANN accountability issues to be developed by CCWG-Accountability, so long as the essential Workstream 1 issues make it into the final ICG proposal to NTIA. But since CCWG-Accountability doesn't report to the ICG but the ICANN Board, I think it is incumbent on this working group to pick up on their output, and to ensure that ICG hears their output as part of the "naming community's proposal". Hence my request for some placeholder text in this proposal that CCWG-Accountability can fill out.

Seeing that there is no such placeholder text now, and having had several of my approaches to try to achieve such text rejected in Frankfurt, I had begun to think that the rest of this group wanted to exclude anything relating to ICANN's policy-making role from the ultimate transition proposal. That worried me greatly.

Your paragraph above gives me new hope that we can have a meeting of minds, so please let me check that I have understood you correctly.
When you say "what we need from workstream 1", do you indeed mean that the proposal from the names community, that goes to ICG, and ultimately to NTIA, must include such proposals for ICANN accountability as CCWG-Accountability decide are an essential precondition for NTIA transition?

Or to put it another way, if CCWG-Accountability decide that ICANN must be contractually bound to certain commitments to ensure that gTLD policy remains transparent, community-based bottom policy (and so forth), are you open to the possibility of having those commitments written into the requirements that the PRT is to enforce on ICANN, alongside the requirements for the IANA functions that this CCWG has defined?

Kind Regards,

Malcolm.

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