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

Sun Jan 4 00:34:08 UTC 2015

One more +1 to Steve and Kieren, Having been too close to the ALAC example
Steve described,  I fully support the analysis on offer.

- Evan

On 3 January 2015 at 15:52, Adebunmi AKINBO <akinbo.adebunmi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> I strongly agree with both James and Steve.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> The work has already been done multiple times. The problems are well
>> known. The proposed solutions are well known.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now is the time to make it stick rather than lose this one good opening
>> because of semantic concerns.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kieren
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> [sent through phone]
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, James M. Bladel <jbladel at godaddy.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi everyone, and Happy 2015!
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
>> ____________
>>
>> James Bladel
>>
>> GoDaddy
>>
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:13, 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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