[CCWG-Accountability] Accountability Definitions and scoping

[Roelof Meijer]

Dear Mathieu, all,

As promised in our last call, some suggestions for text changes (re ccTLDs
and other) in the strawman document:

1)Under „directly affected parties” the document mentions:
ccTLD managers as far as IANA decisions are processed (and only through
that aspect).

Too limited in my opinion, so I suggest to change to: "ccTLD managers
mainly as far as IANA decisions are concerned”
To illustrate my point: if a ccTLD signs it zone, but ICANN postpones
signing the root, that decision would directly influence the security of
the ccTLD 

2)Under „indirectly affected parties” the document does not mention
ccTLDs. In my opinion it should, I suggest we just add „ccTLDs” without
any examples or limitations..
Three examples to illustrate: 1) IfICANN decides to sign the rootzone,
this causes pressure on a ccTLD by its
stakeholders to sign its zone 2) the new gTLD program has direct influence
on
the local market of quite a few ccTLDs and thus on its market position 3)
If ICANN,
through contract, allows Verisign to raise the wholesale prices of .com
domains, this influences registrars’ marketing decisions and thus
influences the market position of ccTLDs that operate/compete in the same
(local) market with .com

3)Under „parties affecting ICANN directly” I suggest we (at least) add:
Auditors, (community) working groups, (external) review teams

4) I am missing (potential) domain name holders as parties
directly/indirectly influencing ICANN. They do so for instance through
their buy/sell behavior. If (almost) nobody buys new gTLDs, there will be
no second round..



Regards,

Roelof




On 12-01-15 18:53, "Mathieu Weill" <mathieu.weill at afnic.fr> wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>In anticipation of the call tomorrow, please find an updated version of
>the draft document mentioned below.
>
>Main edits include :
>- alternate proposal to capture the discussion around purpose of
>accountability during last week's call
>- various comments from Kavouss
>- other minor edits following feedbacks received off list
>
>Best,
>Mathieu
>PS: edits are apparent in this version
>
>Le 05/01/2015 16:44, Mathieu Weill a écrit :
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Please find attached a document drafted by the co-Chairs intended to
>> provide baseline definitions for our work. It is designed to address
>> some of the early questions we raised such as to whom should Icann be
>> accountable ? What is the purpose of Icann's accountability ? or what
>> is accountability ?
>>
>> We provide the document for your reading before the meeting but I will
>> introduce the document during our call tomorrow, and comments will be
>> welcome during the call or after on this email thread.
>>
>> We are well aware of the importance of the choice of words in the
>> definitions and of their consequences for guiding the work of our
>> group going forward. This document is a strawman, so feedback in the
>> form of proposed edits will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>
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