<div dir="ltr">Here are the notes from last night's call that affect our WP directly.<div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Jordan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Brenda Brewer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brenda.brewer@icann.org">brenda.brewer@icann.org</a>></span><br>Date: 4 March 2015 at 00:12<br>Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Notes-Recordings-Transcript links for CCWG ACCT Session #15 03 March<br>To: "<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br><br><br><div bgcolor="white" background="cid:image001.gif@01D03418.3BC26740" lang="EN-US" link="#9D454F" vlink="#814E95"><img src="cid:image001.gif@01D03418.3BC26740" width="0" height="0" style="width:0;min-height:0"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear all, <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The notes, recordings and transcripts for the <b>CCWG ACCT </b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Session #1</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">5</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> call on </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">03 March</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> will be available </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">here: </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52889640" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52889640</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-top:22.5pt"><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Notes</span></b><br></h3><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt;word-spacing:0px"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">CCWG - Call # 15 - 3 March 2015</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt;word-spacing:0px"><br></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt;word-spacing:0px"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">WP1</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Weekly meetings. Discussions about, removal of directors and defining GAC consensus. Draft templates available for most, where not they are topics transferred to WP2 or in progress. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Looking at mechanisms that make these powers work: issue of statutory members, members, supervisory board etc are the right way to make the powers work being discussed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Example: removal of directors (note yet discussed by the working group)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Any number or all Directors might be removed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Assumption controlling is whatever is recommended in terms of CCWG<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">A new mechanism<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The effect of a director being removed. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Standard of the decision, objective standards are often not specified. Suggestion should follow same standards as the ICANN Board currently has to remove a Director. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Do not expect resolution before F2F<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Contributes to all accountability dimensions, makes the Director more aware of all accountability mechanisms and contingencies. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">A director appointed by a particular community, should that electing entity be the only one able to remove the director? Or removal by others with the support or no objection by that SO/AC <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">NomCom appointed directors, may require a modifies process <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Action (co-chair): Can the advisors provide advice on international law and also corporate governance related to removal</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">What infringement might trigger the process? That this is a measure of last resort<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">With each power there will be different triggers. Suggest powers should be attached to existing mechanisms, or one shared new group. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Initial proposal was to spill the entire board. Extreme and very difficult to trigger. Threat of use, presence enough Now making a simple concept complex, picking off single directors, objective standards of the<br>community rather than super-majority. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">WP1 will distinguish between pilling the board and powers if the individual SO/AC. Need to have graduated scale, or risk the only option is to escalate to the higher standard.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Notion of the "big stick" for WS1 topics. Recall of whole board is that big stick. removal of individual directors left as WS2. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">GAC advice and how the bylaws require the Board to consider this advice. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">GAC set out its own operating principles., is able to lower or raise the threshold for advice. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Suggestion of the current wording of GAC principles about consensus advice, that it is that consensus advice that triggers this reconciliation by the Board. If the GAC then changes its standard of advice, <br>how that advice is considered by the board is a matter for the community. Codifies the status quo in the ICANN bylaws. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.0pt;word-spacing:0px"><br></p></div></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jordan Carter<br><br>Chief Executive <br><b>InternetNZ</b><br><br>04 495 2118 (office) | +64 21 442 649 (mob)<br><a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br>Skype: jordancarter<br><br><i>A better world through a better Internet </i><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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