Dear Mathieu, all, As promised in our last call, some suggestions for text changes (re ccTLDs and other) in the strawman document: 1)Under „directly affected parties” the document mentions: ccTLD managers as far as IANA decisions are processed (and only through that aspect). Too limited in my opinion, so I suggest to change to: "ccTLD managers mainly as far as IANA decisions are concerned” To illustrate my point: if a ccTLD signs it zone, but ICANN postpones signing the root, that decision would directly influence the security of the ccTLD 2)Under „indirectly affected parties” the document does not mention ccTLDs. In my opinion it should, I suggest we just add „ccTLDs” without any examples or limitations.. Three examples to illustrate: 1) IfICANN decides to sign the rootzone, this causes pressure on a ccTLD by its stakeholders to sign its zone 2) the new gTLD program has direct influence on the local market of quite a few ccTLDs and thus on its market position 3) If ICANN, through contract, allows Verisign to raise the wholesale prices of .com domains, this influences registrars’ marketing decisions and thus influences the market position of ccTLDs that operate/compete in the same (local) market with .com 3)Under „parties affecting ICANN directly” I suggest we (at least) add: Auditors, (community) working groups, (external) review teams 4) I am missing (potential) domain name holders as parties directly/indirectly influencing ICANN. They do so for instance through their buy/sell behavior. If (almost) nobody buys new gTLDs, there will be no second round.. Regards, Roelof On 12-01-15 18:53, "Mathieu Weill" <mathieu.weill@afnic.fr> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
In anticipation of the call tomorrow, please find an updated version of the draft document mentioned below.
Main edits include : - alternate proposal to capture the discussion around purpose of accountability during last week's call - various comments from Kavouss - other minor edits following feedbacks received off list
Best, Mathieu PS: edits are apparent in this version
Le 05/01/2015 16:44, Mathieu Weill a écrit :
Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached a document drafted by the co-Chairs intended to provide baseline definitions for our work. It is designed to address some of the early questions we raised such as to whom should Icann be accountable ? What is the purpose of Icann's accountability ? or what is accountability ?
We provide the document for your reading before the meeting but I will introduce the document during our call tomorrow, and comments will be welcome during the call or after on this email thread.
We are well aware of the importance of the choice of words in the definitions and of their consequences for guiding the work of our group going forward. This document is a strawman, so feedback in the form of proposed edits will be much appreciated.
Best,
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