[CCWG-Accountability] Work Stream 1 and the concept of Leverage

[Adebunmi AKINBO]

+1 Steve.
This would be the best approach to address and forestall all future
obstacles that may stand in the way of the New ICANN and opportunity or
stakeholder advantage to address issues that may occur should we have a
loophole or suspect one in the nearest future. However, i wish to raise the
question on defining corporation and community.

Its been observed that working definitions within ICANN can be
contradictory. The need to point at Bylaws and Clause that clarify
responsibility and response is key to the future of ICANN.

-Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone.




On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco at netchoice.org>
wrote:

>  Alan Greenberg has questioned the accountability measures we were
> placing into Work Stream 1, saying,
>
>
>  "I am somewhat troubled by all of the items in WS1 where I do not see
> the direct link to the IANA transition. Note I am not saying that they
> might not be perfectly valid and desirable accountability mechanism, just
> that I do not see the direct link, and thus perhaps greatly increasing our
> work to be done to allow transition.”
>
>
>  In responding to Alan, several of us said that a direct link to IANA
> transition is neither required nor desirable.  Instead, the IANA transition
> is the community’s last bit of leverage to force accountability measures on
> ICANN’s board.  The leverage is directly held by NTIA, who has said they
> would not transition IANA unless there was consensus about holding ICANN
> accountable to the community once the IANA contract is gone.  And the
> internet community has indirect leverage, though pressure being brought on
> the US Administration and on Congress.
>
>  So I would hope that Alan and others can gain confidence and comfort
> with the leverage our CCWG holds in this process.  With that leverage comes
> the responsibility to create accountability mechanisms that will guide DNS
> policy making for decades to come.  And we must also get our work done
> without causing undue delay to the IANA transition process.
>
>  Alan’s group is the ALAC, which has often felt the lack of leverage over
> ICANN’s board and and management.  As a recent example, ALAC called on
> ICANN to stop delegating new gTLDs serving highly regulated sectors but
> lacking enforceable public interest commitments (link
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/alac-to-icann-board-16oct14-en.pdf>).
> ICANN’s board and management might continue signing contracts despite
> concerns of the ALAC and others, perhaps fearing lawsuits by gTLD
> applicants.  The fear of lawsuits may also have led the board to ignore
> community concerns over delegating both singular and plural forms of the
> same gTLDs.    After all, the ICANN board’s duty is to the interests of the
> ICANN corporation — not to the community. (see Bylaws
> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/bylaws-2012-02-25-en#VI> Article
> 6, Section 7).
>
>  What would be the source of leverage to hold the board accountable to
> the community for this decision?  We have seen the futility of
> Reconsideration requests and Independent Reviews that lack leverage to
> reverse a board decision.
>
>  This IANA transition is our last chance to create mechanisms that could
> hold ICANN’s board accountable to the community it was designed to serve.
> Let's embrace that challenge and use all the leverage we have.
>
>   —
>  Steve DelBianco
> Executive Director
> NetChoice
> http://www.NetChoice.org <http://www.netchoice.org/> and
> http://blog.netchoice.org
> +1.202.420.7482
>
>
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