>Work Stream 1, proposed a contract between ICANN and Registries & Registrars, with >Registrants as 3rd party beneficiaries. Contract lets ICANN impose rules on others only when >supported by consensus of affected parties.

That, of course, would never work. One of the reasons why not: those affected parties are quite often commercial enterprises that probably would not collectively by consensus agree to serve the public interest instead of their individual commercial interests


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From: Steve DelBianco <sdelbianco@netchoice.org>
Date: maandag 29 december 2014 01:53
To: "accountability-cross-community@icann.org" <accountability-cross-community@icann.org>
Cc: "ccwg-accountability2@icann.org" <ccwg-accountability2@icann.org>, "accountability-staff@icann.org" <accountability-staff@icann.org>
Subject: [CCWG-Accountability] CCWG-Accountability work team 2: draft 5.1

Work Stream 1, proposed a contract between ICANN and Registries & Registrars, with Registrants as 3rd party beneficiaries. Contract lets ICANN impose rules on others only when supported by consensus of affected parties.