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

Tue Oct 21 15:17:51 UTC 2014

Hi David, 
The call is Thursday at 13:00 UTC.

From:  <Fares>, David <DFares at 21cf.com>
Date:  Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:58 AM
To:  "<tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn>" <tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn>
Cc:  "accountability-dt at icann.org" <accountability-dt at icann.org>
Subject:  Re: [Accountability-dt] Notes from informal DT meeting & draft
charter for review

Colleagues,

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

David

Sent from my iPhone

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

> Hi Marika,
>  
> As you certainly know, the Accountability Cross Community WG is named ³CCWG²
> while the IANA transition Cross Community WG is called ³CWG². Please consider
> this.
>  
> I began to work on the scope, but didn¹t 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-30se
> p09-en.htm> )
>  
> 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. I¹ve 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 (I¹ve
> 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 DT¹s
> 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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