[WP1] First Draft: WP1 content for Comment report on communitypowers & AOC

Tue Apr 7 08:45:05 UTC 2015

Thank you Jordan for this useful draft and for your weekend work!

I have a couple of comments.

First, and sorry if I have missed out on something and this has already been discussed, I see that the minimum periodicity of the AT-RT and SSR-RT is extended from 3 to 5 years, and Competition to 4 years. Could you please provide me with the rationale for this proposal?

Second, as a matter of substance, I am missing some language regarding the decision making procedures that the RT should follow and how their deliberations are reflected in their final recommendation reports. I believe we should avoid situations in which a particular input from one single stakeholder has eventually made it into the final report, raising concerns that the final decision made by the RT is not actually something that the community has pushed for, but only a contribution from a single source, which of course is valuable and valid but should not by itself and without additional support be included in the final recommendation. How the RT comes to a decision of taking or not on board a particular input is hence of paramount importance to avoid capture and ensure that the recommendations truly reflect the community's views.

In this vein, we would suggest that the recommendations issued by the RT should indicate whether they were reached at by consensus, qualified majority or simple majority. For the sake of transparency, the review teams should describe how they have considered community inputs explaining why they embraced the ones that made their way to the final report and why they rejected the other ones. In addition, a table displaying the suggestions received and their authors ranked by their level of support among community members contributing to the comment periods should be publicly available.

I believe this or similar measures will boost transparency and contribute to the ultimate goal of the RT, which is no other than to enhance ICANN's performance and accountability.

Thank you for further thoughts and looking forward to continuing the discussion.

Best

Rafael
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De: wp1-bounces at icann.org [mailto:wp1-bounces at icann.org] En nombre de Jordan Carter
Enviado el: martes, 07 de abril de 2015 1:49
Para: wp1 at icann.org
Asunto: [WP1] First Draft: WP1 content for Comment report on communitypowers & AOC

Dear WP1 colleagues,

Attached in PDF and .docx the first draft of the content we have prepared over the weekend to put in the Public Comment report.

It covers community powers and AOC incorporation.

Of course this is not yet perfect - we've done what we can in the very tight timeframe to get first draft material together. Thanks to those drafting team members who were able to set some time aside and add comments and thoughts to the draft. Not everybody had the chance to due to some document access issues, so I am sure our next iteration will be even better.

This will be the main subject of our WP1 call on 8 April.

I would welcome and encourage comment or discussion on the list before the meeting, as well as at the meeting. We won't prepare an updated version of this until after the WP1 call Wednesday, which will take the discussion on the call into account.

I will send this to the co-chairs and asking Leon to advance discussion / consideration with the lawyers.

Staff - please add this on the Wiki in the appropriate place.

cheers,
Jordan

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