[CWG-Stewardship] Draft of Principles

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Comments:

> a.       _Oversight, accountability and transparency_:  the service
> should be accountable and transparent. 
>

I see no reason to include the term 'oversight' here.

>                      i.      _Independence of oversight_:  Oversight
> should be independent of the IANA functions operator and should assure
> the accountability of the operator to the (inclusive) global
> multi-stakeholder community;
>

I recommend removing this as a principle for the following reasons:

a. I do not think oversight is a principle, but one possible solution to
the accountability issue.
b. if 'oversight' is a component of the solution, I do not understand
how it is independent of the stakeholders to whom ICANN is also
accountable, so the notion of 'Independence' is not a principle I
understand in this case.  Yes any possible oversight mechanism should be
independent of ICANN corporate, but I do believe it is accountable to
the same stakeholders as is ICANN.

I think we need a specific principle on accountability in this section:

Accountability: Post transition accountability on the IANA Stewardship
function should be to the Internet stakeholder community.

I also think we need to add a principle called separability

Separability: In the event that the ICANN corporation, or any of its
subsidies, remains responsible for the IANA functions after the
transition of stewardship, it should remain possible for a well formed
review and contracting granting authority to reassign the IANA function
to a new IANA service provider(s).  The power of removing the function
to a different operator should persist through any future transfers of
the the IANA function(s)

Under (c.) I recommend that we include the principle that service levels
be subject to independent audit, with results published for review by
the Internet community on an annual basis.

thanks

avri





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