It's a good reminder of why ICANN needs better accountability mechanisms . . .
The public comment announcement includes the remark "Because this (first) Public Comment period is less than the required 40-day minimum, it has been approved by two ICANN Global Leaders." The term Global Leaders is a reference to senior members of the ICANN staff and the condition was created to ensure that a check existed so that a single ICANN department would not depart from the standard default time period without broader senior staff input. The public comment guidelines and procedures are available on the public wiki https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=48344695
ICANN staff are not a sufficient check on other ICANN staff - it's pretty simple. ICANN staff work for ICANN, obviously, and are, obviously, beholden to it (s they should be, as employees). They will do - or try to do - what they ultimately think the corporation (i.e., the Board) wants, because their jobs are dependent on that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that - but to think of it as a "check" on pressure to depart from the required 40-day comment period is pretty deeply flawed. David At 09:18 AM 5/6/2015, Roelof Meijer wrote:
I am wondering: when Adam writes ³we² our group seems to think he means ³ICANN staff². I do not think ICANN staff has set our time table. I read Adam¹s "You will remember this has been our intention since we discussed planning in Istanbul, and we concluded this discussion on the CCWG call of 30 April.² as us, the CCWG, deciding on it.
Completely off-topic, but so ridiculous that I cannot help myself: if ICANN senior staff are now described as ³ICANN GlobalLeaders², what would that make its CEO? ICANN Leader of the Universe? OMG...
Cheers,
Roelof
On 06-05-15 00:04, "J. William Semich" <bill@nunames.nu> wrote:
I agree with Dr. Lisse 100%.
ICANN staff must not set the timetables for any consensus process. Nor should any committee (co-)chairs.
Regards,
Bill Semich .NU Domain
On May 5, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.NA> wrote:
So,
now ICANN staff decides what comment period is acceptable.
Outrageously unacceptable and objected to.
I am still waiting for the response to my request to be provided with the notes or emails where this was discussed and approved by the CCWG.
el
-- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini
On May 5, 2015, at 21:41, Adam Peake <adam.peake@icann.org> wrote:
Note on behalf of Thomas, Leon and Mathieu about the CCWG proposal 30-day public comment period.
Hi everyone,
We have seen comments about the 30-day public comment period. You will remember this has been our intention since we discussed planning in Istanbul, and we concluded this discussion on the CCWG call of 30 April. The outcome was to propose the first public comment should be for 30 days, which would allow time for us to prepare a response for the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires. It is particularly important that we are able to respond to the dependencies identified by the CWG-Stewardship.
Recognizing that the shorter public comment is not ideal for a subject of such importance to the community, we also took into account the fact that we will to hold a second public comment period some weeks after ICANN53 when we will seek input on any outstanding issues and provide details and explanation prompted by discussions with the community from the first public comment and during ICANN53.
The public comment announcement includes the remark "Because this (first) Public Comment period is less than the required 40-day minimum, it has been approved by two ICANN Global Leaders." The term Global Leaders is a reference to senior members of the ICANN staff and the condition was created to ensure that a check existed so that a single ICANN department would not depart from the standard default time period without broader senior staff input. The public comment guidelines and procedures are available on the public wiki https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=48344695
Warm regards,
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