[CCWG-ACCT] [community-finance] IANA Stewardship Transition - Project Expenses - FY16 Q3 update

[John Curran]

On Aug 21, 2016, at 8:25 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2016 11:00 PM, John Curran wrote:
>> On Aug 16, 2016, at 1:22 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>>> As I said, most democratic governments of the world have laws for access to public information. Take India's Right to Information Act for instance. Wikipedia information on it is here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Information_Act,_2005>, and here is the actual text <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Information_Act,_2005>. The US also has very good laws in this regard, to which you can get easy access. Over 95 countries have some kind of freedom of information laws ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_country <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_country> ) and I think most of them have better transparency laws than what ICANN adheres to…
>> 
>> Please be specific.  ICANN already has a "Documentary Information Disclosure Policy”,
>> and to the extent you believe it needs to be changed, it would be good to hear how.
> 
> John, I have been as specific as I can.

Again, please cite the specific changes to ICANN’s practices that you believe this 
group should consider in its work.

> I am not clear what is the 'community's' plan regarding this. Does this group share the expectation that at the end of the transition process, ICANN will adopt information disclosure policies of the same level as that of mature democracies today (I give the public information regimes of India and US as specific examples)? If not, why so?
> 
> John, it is your turn to be specific :) 

If you believe that changes ICANN’s information disclosure practices are necessary,
please specify the changes that you wish to see.  I do not have direct experience in
making use of ICANN’s information disclosure practices, nor am I recommending that
any changes be made, but you apparently are seeking that some changes be made 
without actually detailing what these changes should be. 

Thanks,
/John

Disclaimer: my views alone.





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