[CCWG-ACCT] The big test of effective accountability

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

In my view we should not waste so much correspondence on what is a technicality in the end, wether the committee is standing or or not, but on the deeper issues.

Why are they doing whatever they want? And how can we stop this.

el

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> On Jan 31, 2015, at 08:40, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> I'm all for calling the Board out when they have messed up. But let's work with facts and not those developed through a game of "broken telephone" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers).
> 
> There is no doubt that the Board neglected to quickly name the standing panel, but it was not "unexecuted for years", nor was the failure "called out in ATRT1 and ATRT2".
> 
> Based on my review of the documents and my personal involvement, the sequence was:
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> - ATRT1 Recommendation 23 called for a review of the IRP as well other review mechanisms.
> 
> - That was done and as a result, new Bylaws were approved which did call for the Board to appoint a standing panel. Those Bylaws went into effect 11 April 2013.
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> - DCA served notice of the intent to seek relief before an IRP on 19 August 2013.
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> - For reasons unrelated to the DCA action, ATRT2 (of which I was a member and vice-chair) in its recommendations issued on 31 December 2013 recommended that ICANN should convene a Special Community Group to discuss options for improving Board accountability with regard to restructuring of the Independent Review Process (IRP) and the Reconsideration Process (ATRT2 Recommendation 9.2). The CCWG-Accountability is that group.
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> Alan
> 
> At 30/01/2015 10:37 PM, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:
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>> ..... Now I see that we have at least one case scenario where a Bylaw mandate has gone unexecuted for years, despite e.g. the failure being called out in ATRT1 and ATRT2.  ....
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