[Internal-cg] Thinking about the assessment process

Xiaodong Lee xl at cnnic.cn
Thu Jan 15 09:52:10 UTC 2015


Dear all, 
 
I’ll go along with Alissa on this one and to respond to Daniel’s suggestion:
 
I have been involved in the cross-community working group developing a names proposal as a liaison for the ICG, also following the number and protocol parameter processes, but no actual participation in the creation of the proposal at all. I’d like to volunteer in the assessment of the proposal.


Best Regards,
--
Dr. Xiaodong Lee


> 在 2015年1月9日,03:46,Alissa Cooper <alissa at cooperw.in> 写道:
> 
> Good suggestion, Daniel.
> 
> I was an active commenter/reviewer of the protocol parameters response from the IETF, and I sit on the steering group that approved it for publication.  
> 
> I have not been involved with the creation of the response from the numbering community beyond reading publicly available documents.
> 
> I am listed as a participant in the names community CWG. My involvement has been limited to reading the mailing list, providing an occasional opinion here and there, and occasionally joining the calls.
> 
> Alissa 
> 
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:31 AM, Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6.01.15 23:51 , Alissa Cooper wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> At some point late last year I believe we had a bit of group discussion
>>> about how we will actually staff the process of assessing the community
>>> proposals as they come in and any issues that may arise from the fact
>>> that many of us are both serving on the ICG and have been involved in
>>> the community processes. I thought it would be good to confirm that we
>>> are generally in agreement about our approach to ensuring that the ICG
>>> assessment is conducted in an independent and unbiased fashion even
>>> though we all have our own community affiliations and have been involved
>>> in the proposal development processes to different extents. To my mind
>>> we have many safeguards in place to help us out here:
>>> 
>>> (1) Multitude of proposal reviews
>>> As we receive proposals from the communities, my expectation is that we
>>> will have many ICG members willing to review them against our assessment
>>> criteria.* I think we should aim to have some reviewers for each
>>> community proposal who are not affiliated with the community in question
>>> and who did not participate in the proposal development process for that
>>> community (as well as some who did). I imagine that through mere
>>> solicitation of volunteers to review within our group we will achieve
>>> this goal, but we should keep an eye out for it in any event. I think
>>> this should help to provide a well-rounded assessment of each proposal.
>>> 
>>> (2) Charter limitations
>>> Since by our charter we will not be altering the substance of the
>>> proposals, I think the danger of any individual ICG member trying to
>>> alter the substance of the proposals through the assessment process is
>>> quite limited.
>>> 
>>> (3) Transparent proposal development processes
>>> In my opinion the proposal development processes and participation in
>>> them has been quite transparent. I think it’s easy to find out which of
>>> us have been participating in which processes and only a little harder
>>> to figure out what we have been advocating for. Because of this, I think
>>> it will be fairly clear if any ICG member tries to use the assessment
>>> process to achieve some end that did not obtain community consensus.
>>> 
>>> (4) Operating by ICG consensus
>>> As a group we decided long ago to operate on a consensus basis, and I
>>> think this provides a further defense against any individual ICG member
>>> trying to bend the assessment process to achieve his or her own personal
>>> objectives.
>>> 
>>> From my perspective the set of safeguards above is plenty robust to
>>> ensure that as a group we can conduct a largely objective assessment of
>>> the proposals. I would appreciate thoughts about this from the group. As
>>> the proposals start to come in I think it will boost the communities’
>>> confidence in us to have this articulated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alissa
>>> 
>>> *
>>> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finalization-24dec14-en.pdf
>>> 
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>> 
>> This makes sense to me.
>> 
>> I suggest that before we start the reviews each of us sends a message to this list describing their involvement, if any, in the development of proposals. This way all that is on record and we avoid accusations of hidden interests or actions.
>> 
>> For myself I can state that I have had no involvement with the proposals of the names and protocol parameters communities.
>> 
>> As a member of the RIPE community I have participated in the public discussion about the principles for the numbers proposal. As part of my job at the RIPE NCC I have provided advice to management about the development of the proposal. I have also worked actively within the RIR communities to explain the process and the work of the ICG.
>> 
>> Daniel
> 
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