[WP1] Comments on draft docs relevant to WP1

[Steve DelBianco]

Steve’s comments on the Main Document, and Annex 9

p.3  Community powers listed do not show the Community IRP. On p.46 the community IRP is mentioned, but nowhere do we spell out the threshold to launch a community IRP.  Our Dublin decision model showed a community IRP required support of 3 AC/SOs and no more than 1 objection.

p.5 – where did this line come from, and what does it mean?
"Workable consensus reforms that enhance the role of the community and ICANN’s Mission should be consistent with ICANN’s interest as a corporate entity."
It was in our 15-Nov summary, but was NOT in our 2nd draft report.
Sometimes community interests will NOT be consistent with interests of the corporate entity.
I recommend we DELETE that line.

p.10 Empowered Community graphic shows GSO. Should be GNSO

p.12 Escalation graphic: I think ENFORCEMENT should be on the horizontal line in upper right corner, to imply this is a step after notifying the ICANN board of the community decision.   That would match better with the Enforcement step described on p. 15

p.12-13 Step 1: after 1 AC/SO approves the petition, shouldn’t we allow an extra 15 days for a second AC/SO to also approve the petition?

p. 13 Step 2: I’m pretty sure we also said that the conference call would be recorded and transcribed, and published.

p. 16: should we add “ and Articles of Incorporation” to the 5th bullet, “Approving any modifications to Standard or Fundamental Bylaws”.   Articles already say, "9. These Articles may be amended by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the directors of the Corporation. When the Corporation has members, any such amendment must be ratified by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the members voting on any proposed amendment.”  Should we change the Articles to say “Members or Designators”?

p.18: numbered item 5 says “Sole Member Model”   Should be Sole Designator Model.

p.20, 21, 22: should we add “ and Articles of Incorporation” to the 5th bullet, “Approving any modifications to Standard or Fundamental Bylaws”.

p.23: says “none objecting”, but I thought we always require more than one objecting to block a power.   My notes from Dublin show that we required more than one objection to block removal of a NomCom director.  Perhaps this was changed after Dublin, but I’m not sure.

p.46: (IRP) I recall Becky wanted the IRP to address action or inaction.  "The standard of review shall be an objective examination as to whether the complained-of action [or inaction] exceeds the scope …"

p.46: (IRP).   Says "A community Independent Review Process would be completely subsidized by ICANN”.    Would be clearer to say, “Legal costs for a community Independent Review Process would be paid by ICANN”

p.49:  says "Based on stress test analysis, CCWG-Accountability recommends incorporating the reviews specified in the Affirmation of Commitments …”   More precise to say, “Based on Stress Test #14, CCWG-Accountability recommends incorporating the commitments and reviews specified …"

P.55: Transparency in WS2:   didn’t we commit to give the Sole Designator the same document access rights that the Sole Member would have under CA law?     If so, that should be in this section.


Annex 9:  This annex does not include the tables where we describe the changes to AoC reviews as they are brought into the bylaws. Must be an oversight, since those tables include many, many WP1 decisions about specific review team requirements.  I attached the AoC document again here.




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