[Accountability-dt] Notes from informal DT meeting & draft charter for review

Mon Oct 20 22:06:37 UTC 2014

Hi Marika,

As you certainly know, the Accountability Cross Community WG is named “CCWG”
while the IANA transition Cross Community WG is called “CWG”. Please
consider this.

I began to work on the scope, but didn’t finish yet. Here is your text as I
modified:

Scope:

In the discussions around the accountability process, areas and topics have
been identified to be important to enhancing ICANN's accountability but not
directly related to accountability in the context of the changing historical
relationship with the USG. To ensure that there's a mechanism to cover all
areas, including topics outside of the immediate scope of the process, a
suggestion is that the CCWG establish two work streams or subgroups:

·         One focused on the scope of the work on enhancing ICANN
accountability in light of the changing relationship with the USG within the
time frame of the transition (Work Stream 1);

·         A second focused on addressing topics on accountability outside
the scope of Work Stream 1, which are longer term (and may include, for
example, recommendations from the recent ATRT2 addressing current
accountability mechanisms such as the Ombudsman, the Reconsideration process
and the Independent Review process) (Work Stream 2).  

Work Stream 1:

The scope of work stream 1 is to ensure ICANN remains accountable in the
absence of its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. Government
(USG), and the perceived backstop with regard to ICANN's organization-wide
accountability provided by that role, such as the renewal process of the
IANA functions contract. It called for an examination, from an
organizational perspective, of how ICANN's broader accountability mechanisms
should be strengthened to address the absence of its historical contractual
relationship with the USG, including looking at strengthening existing
accountability mechanisms (e.g., the ICANN Bylaws and the
<https://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/aoc/affirmation-of-commitments-30
sep09-en.htm> Affirmation of Commitments)

Work Stream 2:

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De : accountability-dt-bounces at icann.org
[mailto:accountability-dt-bounces at icann.org] De la part de Marika Konings
Envoyé : lundi 20 octobre 2014 15:30
À : Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr; accountability-dt at icann.org
Objet : Re: [Accountability-dt] Notes from informal DT meeting & draft
charter for review

Thanks, Mathieu. I’ve updated the charter and added a section on Expert
Advisors as suggested. For now it just contains the information from the
ICANN announcement as a reference. If you have any specific language you
would like to suggest, please feel free to add/edit as you deem appropriate.

Note, that I was also alerted to an old reference to ICG in the
decision-making methodologies section that probably should be updated (I’ve
flagged it accordingly).

Best regards,

Marika

From: Mathieu Weill <mathieu.weill at afnic.fr>
Reply-To: "Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr" <Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>
Date: Monday 20 October 2014 15:29
To: "accountability-dt at icann.org" <accountability-dt at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Accountability-dt] Notes from informal DT meeting & draft
charter for review

Dear Colleagues, 

I am afraid I will not be able to attend our fist call. 

Many thanks to Staff for assembling a skeleton charter. While keeping in
mind this is a skeleton version, I believe one of the key elements to add
will be the notion of Advisors and what their expected contributions should
be. 

I believe expert Advisors in such fields as international law or corporate
governance would be extremely useful to us as resources, in order to analyse
options, provide benchmarks or comparisons. I would definitely add a
reference to Advisors in the staffing & resources section. 

Best,
Mathieu

Le 18/10/2014 20:02, Marika Konings a écrit :

Dear All,

Thank you to those of you that were able to join this week's informal
Accountability Charter Drafting Team meeting. We know it was not possible
for all of you to be present and as such we thought it might be helpful to
summarize some of the points that were discussed:

*	Those SO/AC interested in participating in the DT have been asked to
keep representatives participating in this effort to a manageable number
(one or two volunteers), but seeing the interest in this topic some SO/ACs
may have a couple of additional representatives that are interested to
participate in this drafting effort. If this is a concern, the DT can
consider using alternates. 
*	Staff has prepared a skeleton charter (see attached) based on the
IANA Stewardship Transition CWG Charter which may facilitate the work of the
DT. As such, some of the standard sections have been retained, which a
couple of minor tweaks, reflecting the lessons learned, while some basic
information has been included to help inform the deliberations derived from
the last ICANN announcement for the sections that are likely to form the
bulk of the DT’s work (problem statement, goals & objectives and scope,
deliverables, timeframe, reporting). You are all encouraged to review the
draft charter ahead of the next meeting and share any comments, edits or
suggestions you may have with the mailing list. 
*	Some of the items that came up and will need to be considered by the
DT are co-ordination/alignment with the IANA Stewardship Transition CWG,
scope for track 1 and 2 as well as possible timeline. 
*	Staff will review upcoming deadlines for consideration by the
different SO/ACs which may provide guidance to the DT on the organization
and timing of its work. For example, in order to be considered by the GNSO
Council during its next meeting on 13 November, the charter and motion for
adoption would need to be submitted by 3 November at the latest. The
following opportunity would be the 11 December meeting for which documents
and motions need to be submitted by 1 December. 

As confirmed by Grace, the next meeting of the DT has been scheduled for
Thursday 23 October at 13.00 UTC. The call details have been circulated
separately.

Best regards,

Marika

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