<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Manal,</div><div>Thanks again for your hard work</div><div>I think ,in order to enable the community to duly react, we need to release this FAQ as soon as possible</div><div>By the way, for the issue of ICANN accountability and the activities' of CCWG, I did send a message to the GAC chair and GAC Members and asked every body to duly react on this very important matter.</div><div>I am copy the message to all ICG in order to receive comments from them as soon as possible to enable me to pursue the matter.</div><div>Here is the message </div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000" size="3">Some principles to be observed in addressing the
Accountability issues either on a global aspect relating to ICANN
accountability or, a limited sphere ,relating to the </font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">transition of IANA stewardship </font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Discussion</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">What is the accountability?’</font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000" size="3">The</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" size="3">state</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" size="3">of</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" size="3">being</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></font><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/accountable"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><font face="Calibri" size="3">accountable</font></span></a><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000" size="3">,
</font><font color="#000000" size="3">liable,</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" size="3">or</font><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font><font color="#000000" size="3">answerable</font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">What does it meant to be accountable? </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">To be subject to the obligation<b> to report</b>, explain, or justify something; <span> </span><b>responsible;
answerable. </b></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Accountability implies that a person or an executive entity to
be accountable to someone else or to an entity of real /actual or of legal
nature?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">In a democratic governing system, the executive power, the
government in an individual or in a collective/collegial manner is<b> accountable</b> to the public in an
indirect manner. Such accountability is ensured to be properly functioned <span> </span>so that the <span> </span>executive entity ( government, individually
and collectively is accountable to the legislative entity which is
representative of the public due to the fact that they have been democratically
elected by the public .</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Now coming to the accountability oif ICANN .</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">To whom or to which entity ICANN is and should be accountable</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">The answer was given by ICANN management was that ICANN would be
accountable to Global Multistakehoder Community.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Now the question arises is who represent that Global Multistakehoder
Community.?<br>
Is there any formal representation of the Global Multistakehoder Community.to which
the ICANN would be accountable?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">If yes </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Who these representatives are?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Who elect them?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">How they are elected?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">In analogy with the example of executive and legislative powers
given above, ICANN should be accountable to the democratically elected
representatives of the Global Mulktistakeholder Community.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">There should therefore a a workable mechanism to implement such
legal and formal representation from the Global Mulktistakeholder Community.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Taking into account that based on the discussions currently
being followed and the consensus being emerged, the Global Mulktistakeholder
Community is <span> </span>composed of four following
categories</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Governments,</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Private Sector,</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Civil Society and ,</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Technical Community and Academic ( not Academia)</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Consequently, the entity to which ICANN should be accountable needs
to have representatives of these four categories of <span> </span>Global Mulktistakeholder Community with equal
footing in legal and operational functions terms </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">NetMundial was an example of such composition in which the members
of the Executive Global Community were selected ( in future should be elected )
from these four categories .In fact the above-mentioned Executive Committee had
24 members composed of 12 from Governments , three from Civil Society, three
from Private Sector <span> </span><span> </span>three from technical Community and three from
academia ( in fact the correct appellation is Academic )</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">The above-mentioned composition representing Global
Multistakeholder Community did work well and produced positive results.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">However, the composition and the elkection procedure could be
further explored and improved.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">It is worth to mention that ,currently, ICANN Board performs
that accountability<br>
However, NTIA currently perform some sort of over sighting.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">It is to be noted that ICANN Board Members are nominated by
NOMCOM without being democratically being elected .In fact t</span><span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">he</span></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt"> ICANN Board’s M<span>embers</span>
<span>are</span> <span>elected</span> <span>by</span> <span>no</span> <span>one</span> <span>and</span> <span>are</span> <span><i>accountable</i></span><em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></em><span>to</span> <span>no</span> <span>one</span></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">If this crucial and fundamental issue is not duly addressed ,the
whole issue of accountability is totally confusing and make the situation worse
than today</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Why worse?</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Because today, at least, NTIA ,is being held responsible in an
overall manner. However, after the transition of the INANA Stewardship Function
to a non-defined and non-executable Global Multitystakehoder Community, no one
could be held responsible</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">This is the real dilemma.</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Regards</span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:16.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt">Kavouss <span> </span><span> </span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-25 10:13 GMT+01:00 Manal Ismail <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manal@tra.gov.eg" target="_blank">manal@tra.gov.eg</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Dear
All ..<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">I
have paused our FAQ discussions based on what Alissa suggested, in her email
dated 27 October, 2014: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">"I
think beyond the FAQ text (and probably before we add the new text to the FAQ
web site), the main thing we need to agree on as the ICG is the full list of
what our plans, requirements, and expectations are vis a vis the proposal
submission process." <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Yet,
before we lose track, I'm attaching (also on Dropbox) a version, dated 24Nov14,
which I hope accurately reflects all previous discussions .. I suggest that, as
we have agreed that the FAQ is going to be a living document, that we do not delay
its posting pending finalization of discussions on all questions .. As a living
document, it's hard to have a complete perfect version all the time ..
Additionally, the FAQ has to provide timely information and some questions are
more urgent than others .. So my suggestion is that, as we continue discussion
on the Board role, if the current answer is still unsatisfactory to some, we
can proceed with other updates such as Q#19 on whether the target deadline has
been delayed, and Q#22 on the relationship between the ICG work and the ICANN
accountability process ..<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">If
acceptable, I would hence suggest that ICG members skim through the track
changes and identify any questions were there are still concerns or uncompleted
discussions .. We can then halt updates concerning those specific questions and
proceed with the rest .. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">I
think we should also have some way to highlight new or modified questions as
well as the date of last update, on the online version ..<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">How
does this sound?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Looking
forward to receiving your views and any other suggestions for better ways forward
..<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">Kind
Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr">--Manal
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