[CCWG-ACCT] A way to avoid the 'The Single Member Can Do Anything!' problem

[Seun Ojedeji]

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On 30 Sep 2015 10:04, "Malcolm Hutty" <malcolm at linx.net> wrote:
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> On 30/09/2015 01:15, Jordan Carter wrote:
> > *Here is a suggestion.*
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> > *
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>  *For that reason, I would like to propose that we amend our Report to
> state explicitly that GAC, RSSAC and SSAC will participate in the Single
> Member in an advisory capacity, as they do on the Board. The mechanism
> and procedure for these bodies to provide advice to the Single Member
> will be the Community Forum, as already defined.*
>
> It now strikes me that we may have erred in saying that SSAC, RSSAC and
> (possibly) GAC would/might not participate in the Single Member. The
> only thing in which they may not participate is the vote that directs
> how the Single Member acts. It is entirely possible for them participate
> fully in the deliberations the Single Member undertakes prior to taking
> a decision, giving their advice as they see fit.
>
SO: Interesting that you think what you've proposed above ensures exercise
of power by the entire community. So GAC et all should continue talking
under the community forum while other part of the community continue to use
the power to direct ICANN through their votes under the same community
forum. That's interesting way to ensure capture.

We just have to balance up accountability on both sides of the community by
going the sole designator route and ensuring that NO community power will
be exercised by a section of the community! Even though that would not have
been my preference on a normal day but it can be a compromise that one can
live with.

Regards

> Of course, I understand that we never intended to exclude these bodies
> from giving their advice in the Community Forum. In the "reality" of our
> intentions, the change I propose is no change at all. On the other hand,
> Fadi expressly stated that he saw the non-participation of the bodies in
> the Single Member as a real problem. In choosing to express ourselves as
> saying that these bodies are unable to participate in the Single Member
> we have invited that criticism; an outcome that can be readily corrected.
>
> It should be noted that this would exactly mirror the current position
> of these bodies on the Board: they participate in the Board by means of
> giving advice, but do not participate in votes. So it would be no more
> true to say that what I propose does not count as real participation in
> the Single Member than that it would be true to say that they do not
> participate in the current governance arrangements.
>
> Perhaps this will resolve it. If not, if the Board say that "non-voting
> is not sufficient, they must be voting too for the SMM to reflect the
> whole community", then they must explain why they apply a different
> standard to the SMM than to the Board. I think they would find hard to
> justify to the community, to NTIA, to Congress that they were
> withholding their support for a community proposal that would mirror
> their own makeup, on the grounds that the require voting power to be
> given to entities that have been offered it and declined.
>
> I understand that there may be further, separate objections. But if we
> are to find a way forward, we must consider each of them. If this is one
> that can be crossed off the list, I would count that as progress.
>
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