[WP2] Stress Test analysis on IRP

[Malcolm Hutty]

Dear Becky, everyone,

In today's Stress Test Working Party we considered an analysis written
on Stress Test 23. Stress test 23 says

"ICANN uses RAA or other agreements to arrange that its counter-parties
impose requirements on third parties, allegedly outside scope of ICANN
mission. Affected third parties, not being contracted to ICANN, have
little or no effective recourse against ICANN; contracted parties, not
being implicated by the requirements themselves, do not avail themselves
of mechanisms allowing them to challenge ICANN’s decision. Consequence:
ICANN seen as a monopoly leveraging power in one market (domain names)
into adjacent markets."

The paper analyses how the CCWG proposal addresses this problem, and the
routes that are followed by the accountability mechanisms we have
created, to see whether there are any gaps or potential for failure in
the accountability process we have designed.

The Stress Test Working Party was of the view that although the analysis
had been written to a specific scenario created to test Stress Test 23,
since the accountability process is similar for other scenarios, this
analysis may have much broader applicability than just the narrow
scenario described.

The Stress Test Working Party noted that the measures in the proposal
addressed to this issue (Mission, IRP) lie significantly within the
purview of WP2, and asked me to forward this paper to you with the
recommendation that WP2 consider the paper and the issues to which it
draws attention.

The analysis paper is attached for your convenience, and now has a
permanent location on the CCWG wiki:

https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52232556/Stress%20Test%20Analysis%20Test%2023%20rev%202015-06-28%5B1%5D.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1436348131912&api=v2


If you would like to discuss this on tonight's call, I will be happy to
walk you through it.

Kind Regards,

Malcolm.

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