[CCWG-ACCT] Terminology for the ICANN trinity

avri doria avri at acm.org
Tue Mar 7 17:17:24 UTC 2017


Hi,

My normal inclination would have been to use Organization to mean all of
us in the multistakeholder trinity (board, community and staff) as many
have argued.  But since Goran was seemingly set on his usage, I am
worried about us building in a permanent confusion/ambiguity.  Thus my
search for another way to refer to it.  It is also why I included Staff 
as an aka for ICANN Organization, trying to keep our standard usage as
well as allow for the CEO's usage.

Trying to be pragmatic and not ideological about this.

avri


On 07-Mar-17 10:53, Greg Shatan wrote:
> I think it makes sense to refer to the *legal entity* known as the
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers as the
> "Corporation" (which is a term of US law (not just California law)
> used for non-profit incorporated entities (including public interest
> entities, charities, foundations, membership organizations, etc.)).
>
> Where we are referring to something other than the that legal entity,
> we should not use "corporation."
>
> I believe that Goran is using Organization to refer to the "staff"
> (CEO on down, both employees and those who may be engaged on an
> "independent contractor" or "consultant" basis), but not to the Board
> (which is also part of the Corporation), but we may want to clarify.
>
> I agree with Stephen Deerhake that we need to be mindful of existing
> terms and use them as our basis.  The corollary to that is to avoid
> using any currently-used terms differently than their current use --
> so we should not contradict Goran's use of "organization" (once we
> confirm exactly how he uses it and what the "boundaries" of his
> definition are).
>
> Greg
>
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>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Schweighofer Erich
> <erich.schweighofer at univie.ac.at
> <mailto:erich.schweighofer at univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>
>     It is good to work on terminology but it should be a common effort
>     and reflecting real language use. ICANN-speak is already a strong
>     "border" joining our community. Some ontology work can help.
>     I would prefer organization - corporation is very much a term of
>     California law not much used outside for a public purpose association.
>     Best regards, Erich Schweighofer
>
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>     <mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces at icann.org>] Im
>     Auftrag von Bruce Tonkin
>     Gesendet: Sonntag, 05. März 2017 01:29
>     An: accountability-cross-community at icann.org
>     <mailto:accountability-cross-community at icann.org>
>     Betreff: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Terminology for the ICANN trinity
>
>     >>  Make it as simple as possible so that ICANN outsiders will
>     understand it.
>
>     >>  Thanks to the 1000+ acronyms ICANN has created enough
>     confusion not only among the "people in the street" who arer using
>     domainnames but also among Internet policy makers who are not
>     ICANN insiders but have to deal with implications conming fro
>     domainnames.
>
>     Yes - where possible I prefer we use terminology in common use in
>     the wider community.
>
>     I would generally think that "organization" or "corporation"
>     refers to Board, staff, and contractors.
>
>     Regards,
>     Bruce Tonkin
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