[Comments-reviews-standards-17oct17] Comment on Standards for ICANN Reviews

[Alejandro Pisanty]

To whom it may concern,



please accept this comment as Public Comment on the Operating Standards for
ICANN's Specific Reviews



The process by which members of Review Teams and similar working groups and
parties should be modified to allow the inclusion of volunteers recommended
by the Board of Directors and other possible relevant instances outside the
present process closed by the SO and AC leadership, in order to enable the
introduction of opinions which may dissent from those in the SO and AC
leadership.



The process approved after the IANA transition has become too closed, as
part of a trend to deprive the Board of some opportunities to take part in
the activities of ICANN. As a result, the selection of reviewers has now
become more political instead of less, and more liable instead of less to
lead to a choice of "comfortable" reviewers at the expense of those who may
find flaws and recommend changes in parts of ICANN other than the
operational and managerial staff.



To further aggravate the consequences of this change, the SO and AC
leadership is not subject to the kind of stringent scrutiny the Board and
staff are in terms of accountability, transparency, and conflicts of
interest. The opportunities for situations commonly described as "circling
the wagons", "you pat my back, I'll pat your back" and other irregularites
are too high to leave untouched.



ICANN will be affected by this paradoxal aspect of its institutional design
as it will be described by others - some frankly inimical - as an
organization which is too closed on itself; and may already be suffering
the consequences of this design in the difficulties the SSR2 Review is
finding.



Additional disclosure, I have personally observed this in the SSR2 process,
whereas the reviews including the first SSR which I had the honor to chair,
based on ICANN's previous instiutional design were able to introduce strong
critics of all involved ICANN parties and produce results whose beneficial
consequences have been adopted over rather long periods.



I would be most grateful if you included this note formally as submitted to
the comment process, in time before the deadline, and if you could
acknowledge receipt of this communication. Unfortunately I have not been
able to submit it through the link provided on the website due to some
configuration mismatches which will take some time and careful decisions on
privacy to resolve.



Yours,



Alejandro Pisanty


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