[CCWG-ACCT] [Ws2-staff_acct] Consensus Call for sending Rev 1.5 to the full meeting for a first reading.

[avri doria]

Hi,

Attached is version 1.6 of the Staff Accountability report. It is being
submitted for a first reading in the full WS2 meeting.  This will be the
group's second attempt to do so.  We have, since the first failed
reading, discussed the issues that came out from that reading and have
made extensive changes to the recommendations and their wording.

The report has received consensus from the subgroup in all aspects but
one. Due to the limited number of people participating in out last
meetings we felt that we could not resolve that issue without a wider
conversation.

Currently recommendation 4a reads:

    ICANN Organization should work with the community to:

      a.Develop and publish service level guidelines (similar to the
        Service Level Agreement for the IANA Numbering Services) that
        clearly define all services provided by ICANN to contracted
        parties and the service level target for each service.


The recommendation in our previous attempt at a first reading in the
full group had been for a service level agreements (SLA). As there had
been strong reaction on SLAs because of their legal nature and the
difficulty involved in negotiating such SLAs, the recommendation was
changed to guidelines. In response, there was consensus in the subgroup,
though not unanimity, for recommending guidelines instead of agreements.

During the subgroup consensus call, there was a request that we wait
until there had been time for more comment from the Contracted Parties
House of the GNSO, on whose behalf the original recommendation had been
made. It was argued that guidelines were an unreliable mechanism and
that it would be better to develop SLAs.

Because of the tight schedule and the intermittent nature of sub-team
member attendance, it was recommended by others that we send the
subgroup consensus document as is on to the full meeting leaving the
issue of 4a open for discussion in the full meeting. An online consensus
call supported this recommendation.

The document can be found in
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vH5su7SDGE0i_rTstbYJ7tIaOFuRnV4dfqpwMTPoYa8/edit?usp=sharing>
(pdf attached)


thank you

avri




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