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

Sat Jan 3 20:52:37 UTC 2015

+1 McCarthy.

McCarty,
Steve paints the loophole; its crystal clear.

However, while we foresee Membership, how do we curb overzealous membership
expectation?

With a clear process for equal representation, i believe that we can
address it without excess.
Its our only opportunity to address transparency for the future ICANN.
-Akinbo.

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck at actonline.org> wrote:

>  +1
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> *From:* accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org [mailto:
> accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Kieren
> McCarthy
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:59 AM
> *To:* James M. Bladel
> *Cc:* accountability-cross-community at icann.org
> *Subject:* Re: [CCWG-Accountability] Work Stream 1 and the concept of
> Leverage
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> I strongly agree with both James and Steve.
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> The IANA transition represents an opportunity - probably the last good
> opportunity - to reflect on the past 15 years of ICANN as the IANA operator
> (among other things) and make changes that balance bad organizational
> habits and biases with what we would (and should) expect from the manager
> of the DNS.
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> The work has already been done multiple times. The problems are well
> known. The proposed solutions are well known.
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> Now is the time to make it stick rather than lose this one good opening
> because of semantic concerns.
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> Kieren
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> -
> [sent through phone]
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> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com>
> wrote:
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>  Hi everyone, and Happy 2015!
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> Just wanted to lend my support to Steve's post, below.  The IANA
> transition is the context, but not necessarily the yardstick, for the work
> on new accountability mechanisms.
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> My only concern is that two separate review teams (ATRT1 and ATRT2) also
> went down this path, and with arguably more time & resources to complete
> their work.  For this CWG to be successful, I strongly believe we need to
> stand on their shoulders and reference prior work wherever possible and
> applicable.
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> Thanks,
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> J.
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> ____________
>
> James Bladel
>
> GoDaddy
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> On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:13, Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco at netchoice.org>
> wrote:
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>  Alan Greenberg has questioned the accountability measures we were
> placing into Work Stream 1, saying,
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> "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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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
>
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