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

Tue Oct 21 14:58:48 UTC 2014

Colleagues,

Was there a call today?  If so, my apologies for missing it, I am traveling.

David

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On Oct 20, 2014, at 6:07 PM, "Tijani BEN JEMAA" <tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn<mailto:tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn>> wrote:

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 Affirmation of Commitments<https://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/aoc/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm>)

Work Stream 2:

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De : accountability-dt-bounces at icann.org<mailto: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<mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>; accountability-dt at icann.org<mailto: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<mailto:mathieu.weill at afnic.fr>>
Reply-To: "Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr<mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>" <Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr<mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr>>
Date: Monday 20 October 2014 15:29
To: "accountability-dt at icann.org<mailto:accountability-dt at icann.org>" <accountability-dt at icann.org<mailto: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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