[CCWG-ACCT] Creative solutions for Rec.11
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I would expect most governments to make their comments in the GAC itself.
Only exceptionally to respond to public comments periods.
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On 30 Jan 2016, at 23:15, "Paul Rosenzweig" <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com> wrote:
> Sure Jorge
>
> I'll happily agree with you that everyone who spoke to the issue of the
> 2/3rd vote that was a government (as opposed to the rest of the community)
> supported it.
>
> In return, ought you not to acknowledge that the entire opposition to the
> full consensus/ST18 proposal is exactly 5 countries? Nobody outside the GAC
> affirmatively supports less than full consensus and many (most notably the
> gNSO) actively opposes it. Ought you not to acknowledge that the tiny
> minority of 5 dissenters is who is blocking consensus on that aspect of the
> issue?
>
> And, since we are asking questions -- why didn't the government of
> Switzerland submit comments?
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Rosenzweig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch [mailto:Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch]
> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 4:40 PM
> To: paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com
> Cc: egmorris1 at toast.net; accountability-cross-community at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Creative solutions for Rec.11
>
> Dear Paul
>
> As I said I cannot and would not dare to speak for the GAC.
>
> But in any group where expressing one's opinion is not compulsory, normally
> a majority does remain silent and those with a strong sentiment speak out,
> factually "representing" in some way the main currents of thought in such a
> group.
>
> I guess this happens all across the board and in all constituencies, as it
> happens in our CCWG, where some of us (to varying degrees) cope a lot of the
> conversations while the majority of the +150 (?) members and participants
> are normally silent.
>
> So, I guess that based on this "voluntary" principle the data you mention on
> the 2/3 element is significant, at least in showing that there seems not to
> be any government considering that threshold as something they should object
> (quite to the contrary it seems). And of the governments which participated
> there is quite an interesting variety in regional terms.
>
> best regards
>
> Jorge
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
>> Am 30.01.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Paul Rosenzweig
> <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>:
>>
>> Jorge
>>
>> I took you up on the implicit challenge and have just spent an hour
> happily
>> reading all of the government comments on CCWG-A Third Draft. I may
> have
>> missed a comment, but I don't think so.
>>
>> I can happily report the following to the community:
>>
>> 15 governments commented on the Third Draft report. Of those 14
>> addressed Rec 11 and 7 also addressed Rec 1. One government (Italy)
>> addressed only Rec 2.
>>
>> Of the 7 who addressed Rec 1: 4 governments supported GAC voting in
>> the EC (Brazil, Argentina, Japan, and NZ) though two (Japan and NZ)
>> expressed caution about this. Two governments said GAC should be
>> advisory only
>> (Ireland/Denmark) and one (UK) said that the decision should be up to
>> the GAC.
>>
>> Of the 14 who addressed Rec 11:
>> -- All who spoke to the issue supported the 2/3rd vote
>> rejection rule. Some were silent
>> -- Eight governments supported the current full consensus rule
>> (Australia, NZ, UK, Japan, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, and Denmark); five
>> opposed it (Brazil, France, Argentina, Portugal, India); one (Norway)
>> noted lack of GAC consensus.
>>
>> So my assessment is that a very small sample of 6 governments splits
>> 2-1 in favor of a GAC voting role in the EC and a somewhat larger
>> sample of 13 governments splits 8-5 in favor of ST18 and full consensus.
>>
>> To be honest, I think that doesn't tell us much. There are 153
>> governments in the GAC. A sample of 10% probably says nothing about
>> sentiment in that body. Nonetheless the data speak for themselves at
> least as far as they go.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Paul Rosenzweig
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch [mailto:Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch]
>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 3:04 PM
>> To: egmorris1 at toast.net
>> Cc: paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com;
>> accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Creative solutions for Rec.11
>>
>> Hi Ed
>>
>> I don't know the numbers by heart, but I'll guess they are on the
>> public comment sheet produced by staff (actually I just saw in their
>> ppt that out of 90 comments 17% come from govts).
>>
>> But let's not go down that road: if we count who participates and
>> extend it to other constituencies we will also see the "same faces" all
> over again:
>> that is a consequence of the principle of voluntary participation.
>>
>> In the GAC this is "compensated" with our voluntary high consensus
>> threshold which requires to include any interested delegation into a
> consensus.
>>
>> regards
>> Jorge
>>
>> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>>
>>> Am 30.01.2016 um 20:54 schrieb Edward Morris <egmorris1 at toast.net>:
>>>
>>> Hi Jorge,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this.
>>>
>>> I believe the GAC has around 140 members, give or take a few. As
>>> you've
>> gone through all the public comments filed by governments would be so
>> kind as to us know how many governments actually filed public comments
>> and what percentage of GAC membership that represents?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ed Morris
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On 30 Jan 2016, at 19:46, <Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch>
>> <Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Paul
>>>>
>>>> I cannot speak for the GAC of course, but the last consensus input
>>>> on
>> ST18 we had was the Dublin Communique.
>>>>
>>>> The subsequent Rec 11 did not satisfy some governments, as they
>>>> basically
>> thought that it did not comply with the "autonomy in defining
>> consensus"-element agreed in Dublin.
>>>>
>>>> This may be checked with the comments filed in the third public
>>>> comment
>> period on the third draft report by governments.
>>>>
>>>> I think I have gone through all public comments filed by governments
>>>> and
>> I'm not aware of any position rejecting or objecting to Rec 11 because
>> it would consider that it went "too far" i.e. because they would
>> actively disagree with the 2/3.
>>>>
>>>> Other colleagues may of course correct and/or complement me if I
>>>> have
>> missed something.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> Jorge
>>>>
>>>> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>>>>
>>>>> Am 30.01.2016 um 20:19 schrieb Paul Rosenzweig
>> <paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> May I ask a question -- is the GAC willing to disclose the current
>>>>> split of opinion within the GAC regarding Rec 11?
>>>>>
>>>>> The last we heard was that the GAC had not reached consensus on the
>>>>> question. One infers (I think infer is actually too soft a word
>>>>> but I use it to be certain I am not overstating the case) that some
>>>>> members of the GAC support Rec 11 as written and some do not. One
>>>>> also suspects (though here I am less certain) that some of the GAC
>>>>> members oppose Rec 11 because it does not go far enough (they want
>>>>> Rec 11 plus more (e.g. removal of the consensus
>>>>> language)) while others do not support Rec 11 because it goes too
>>>>> far (they would be content with a majority requirement and
>>>>> enshrining the status quo consensus rule in the bylaws).
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the issues we have with the GAC is that unlike the other
>>>>> SO/ACs it is uniquely non-transparent. That means that the voices
>>>>> in our discussion that are the most frequent can be thought to
>>>>> represent the GAC majority. Perhaps they are. Yet every time some
>>>>> of the less frequent voices from GAC speak in this forum they seem
>>>>> much less strident and committed than do the more frequent
>>>>> participants
>> in our discussion.
>>>>>
>>>>> I fear that the result of this is that we are misperceiving the
>>>>> GAC's true intentions, or more accurately, misperceiving the actual
>>>>> split of opinion within the GAC. To be honest, if, in fact, it
>>>>> were the case that every country in the world save my own were
>>>>> supporting Rec 11, I would be more inclined to relinquish my
>>>>> objection. But my strong suspicion is that this is not the case.
>>>>>
>>>>> Put another way, some have recently said we are "disrespecting" the
>>>>> GAC or ignoring its wishes. But, as of now its wishes are
>>>>> radically unclear -- all it says is "we have not reached
>>>>> consensus." In the interests of clarifying the nature of that lack
>>>>> of consensus, would the GAC be willing to disclose its assessment
>>>>> of the relative support for Rec 11 and the relative support for
> objections thereto?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Rosenzweig
>>>>> paul.rosenzweig at redbranchconsulting.com
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Mueller, Milton L [mailto:milton at gatech.edu]
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 1:50 PM
>>>>> To: Malcolm Hutty <malcolm at linx.net>; Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch;
>>>>> kdrazek at verisign.com
>>>>> Cc: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Creative solutions for Rec.11
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry, Malcolm, but this is a bit too "creative."
>>>>>
>>>>> You are proposing to restructure the entire ICANN policy process
>>>>> and to alter in a fairly fundamental way the relationship between
>>>>> GNSO and
>> the GAC.
>>>>> There is a lot of merit in your idea as a general procedural
>>>>> reform, but the point of this exercise is to create accountability
>>>>> mechanisms that substitute for the oversight of the USG, not to
>>>>> alter the policy development process or to redesign all of ICANN.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Ed Morris's message was a more positive contribution that
>>>>> points the way toward a solution.
>>>>> The problem is not the 2/3 threshold in isolation, the problem is
>>>>> that certain aspects of the CCWG 3rd draft, when looked at in
>>>>> combination, are changing the role of the GAC in ways greatly
>>>>> expand its power over the policy process, because they retain and
>>>>> strengthen the privileges of its old role while also changing its
>>>>> role by making it a part of the community mechanism.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with Ed: if GAC is not part of the community mechanism,
>>>>> and/or is not exempted from the same reviews as other ACs and SOs,
>>>>> then the 2/3 threshold becomes much less of an issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with Becky's more modest proposal: if GAC is removed from
>>>>> the community mechanism appeals that pertain to whether the board
>>>>> follows GAC advice, then there is less worry about raising the
>>>>> threshold for board rejection of GAC advice.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we need to start from those propositions, not start
>>>>> redesigning the policy process.
>>>>>
>>>>> --MM
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org
>>>>>> [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org] On
>>>>>> Behalf Of Malcolm Hutty
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 4:50 AM
>>>>>> To: Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch; kdrazek at verisign.com
>>>>>> Cc: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Creative solutions for Rec.11
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29/01/2016 21:24, Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch wrote:
>>>>>>> it is a bit akward you would need to concede that you imply that
>>>>>>> without the 2/3 the GNSO would be able to support Rec 11.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It gives an impression as if Rec 11 (without 2/3) would contain
>>>>>>> anything "that would need to be accepted", when as we all know
>>>>>>> Rec
>>>>>>> 11 (without 2/3) corresponds to 100% of the GNSO starting position.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So there would be any concession. No aspect "in need to be accepted".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just a 100% win-situation for the GNSO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29/01/2016 22:01, Jorge.Cancio at bakom.admin.ch wrote:
>>>>>>> I feel that at this critical juncture we all have to keep the
>>>>>>> whole picture in our heads, be creative (as Becky for instance)
>>>>>>> and look for a solution which may be acceptable across the
>>>>>>> community
>> as a whole.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The 2/3 rule is evidently unacceptable to the GNSO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Without that rule, Rec.11 would (it seems) be acceptable to them.
>>>>>> Jorge says "But this is their starting position, it would mean a
>>>>>> 100% win-situation for the GNSO". I might observe that the logic
>>>>>> of that seems to be that GNSO ought to have come to CCWG with a
>>>>>> more extreme initial position, so that it could settle on what it
>>>>>> really
>> wanted.
>>>>>> Perhaps it will learn to adapt its negotiating tactics.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, I do agree with Jorge: we need to try to respect the need
>>>>>> for all parties to be seen to gain improvements from our changes.
>>>>>> I would therefore like us to take up his challenge to "be creative"
>>>>>> in an attempt to find a solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let us consider what the 2/3 rule attempts:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - from a government point of view, it provides an assurance that
>>>>>> GAC advice will be given greater weight, affirming the importance
>>>>>> of
>>>>> government input.
>>>>>> Such an assurance is necessary to them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - from a GNSO point of view, it ensures that the Board will
>>>>>> automatically follow GAC advice (except in very unusual
>>>>>> circumstances) transforming ICANN into a body which is led by
>>>>>> government policy. Such a transformation is unacceptable to them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With GNSO opposition, I believe we must accept that the 2/3 rule
>>>>>> is dead. But taking up Jorge's challenge, we must replace it not
>>>>>> with nothing, but with something creative that would offer in its
>>>>>> place the assurance to governments the 2/3 rule seeks to achieve,
>>>>>> without creating the transformation that the GNSO opposes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it would be useful if people come forward with ideas for
>>>>>> strengthening the input of governments without overbalancing the
>>>>>> decision-making process as the 2/3 rule does.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would therefore like to make the following suggestion of my own:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Remove the 2/3 rule; and
>>>>>> * Provide that when providing advice on GNSO policy, GAC advice is
>>>>>> given directly to the GNSO (during the PDP) instead of to the
>>>>>> Board, (after the community consensus policy is finalised and
>>>>>> ready to be
>>>>> ratified).
>>>>>> Require that the GNSO consider any such GAC advice before adopting
>>>>>> a PDP policy. (This is conceptual: lawyers can wordsmith).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The advantages of this proposal, as I see them, are as follows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - By accepting GAC advice into an earlier stage of the process, it
>>>>>> will be possible to incorporate it into the design of the policy,
>>>>>> rather than tacking it on as an adjunct. GAC advice will therefore
>>>>>> be more effective and the ultimate outcome more likely to reflect
>>>>>> GAC
>>>>> expectations than at present.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - By incorporating the fruits of GAC advice into the community
>>>>>> proposal, it will also benefit from the rule that the Board is
>>>>>> expected to accept GNSO community consensus policy proposals, and
>>>>>> can only reject them by
>>>>>> 2/3 supermajority.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - By including the GAC in the policy-development process we
>>>>>> strengthen the GAC's role as a part of our community, reducing the
>> "them and us"
>>>>>> tensions and helping to ensure that GAC concerns are given full
>>>>>> respect at every level of the organisation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Most importantly, this suggestions aims to strengthen the GAC's
>>>>>> role in a manner that also strengthens the multi-stakeholder
>>>>>> policy development process, rather than standing in tension with
>>>>>> it. It can therefore be seen not as a zero-sum compromise but a
>>>>>> true win-win
>>>>> solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I look forward to your thoughts,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Malcolm.
>>>>>>
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