[CCWG-ACCT] A modest proposal to start the week

[Roelof Meijer]

"As I understand it, their only power is that they have standing to sue
ICANN for failing to comply with its own bylaws.²

If that is true, let¹s not go this way. It¹s far a far too complicated way
to deal with a situation that will never happen



Best,

Roelof




On 01-06-15 16:35, "Malcolm Hutty" <malcolm at linx.net> wrote:

>On 2015-06-01 15:24, Avri Doria wrote:
>> Or my belief that by creating these membership organizations we do not
>> solve the accountability problem but compartmentalize it, so that we
>> need to insure the accountabilty of all of the independent UAs instead
>> of ICANN as an overall entity.  Membership moves the problem from
>> accountabity of one ICANN to the accountabilty of the many UA.
>
>Avri,
>
>What is it you fear that these "unaccountable UA" might do?
>
>As I understand it, their only power is that they have standing to sue
>ICANN for failing to comply with its own bylaws. Is there anything else
>that they can do?
>
>Presumably, if the complaint is ill-founded, it will fail. If it is well
>founded, it deserves to succeed. I don't see how accountability for the
>decision to raise the issue even arises.
>
>Perhaps you could clarify where you believe the harm lies?
>
>Malcolm.
>
>
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