I still believe that ACs should remain in an advisory role and not additionally have votes.  We seem to be fundamentally changing the roles of ICANN's constituent parts in ways that clearly have not been fully examined.   The SO's are charged with making policy and ACs are charged with advising the board in ICANN's existing structure, but we will be eliminating that barrier in many cases with this mechanism, with SO's giving away most of this power to ACs.   Even if we could find consensus in such a re-balancing and re-assignment of roles (and I'm not sure we can), I don't see how Congress or the NTIA could accept such a massive reformulation and subversion of the SO's interests.  Advisory Committees are "advisory" and we should not change that through this process, despite the crushing pressure to go along for a fast transition.

Robin


On Jul 28, 2015, at 2:21 AM, Jordan Carter wrote:

Dear CCWG members

Please find attached a number of papers up for discussion on today's call in about three hours - these are final drafts, the marked ups and background versions are on the Wiki at the link below.

Also attached is a summary noting what the key most recent changes have been.

I particularly draw your attention to the paper which starts 5A2 on voting power, updated following the WP1 call this morning and now allocating 5 votes per SO and AC, and with an opt-in mechanism proposed.


Speak with you soon,

Jordan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jordan Carter <jordan@internetnz.net.nz>
Date: 28 July 2015 at 21:20
Subject: Draft Agenda & Papers - WP1 Meeting #22 (28 July at 19h UTC)
To: "wp1@icann.org" <wp1@icann.org>


Hi all

Here is the draft agenda and the documents for the WP1 call happening at 19-21h UTC on Tuesday 28 July 2015.

Also attached is the summary of issues.

Please read these documents before the call - the working method will be an "Are There Any Final Comments To Make/Did Anything Decided at CCWG Affect This Draft" approach...

[the reason for this is that our meeting finishes only 3 hrs before the absolute Freeze date for the 

1. Review of Agenda.

2. Any outstanding issues from CCWG meeting of 28 July (12h-14h)

3. Final Review of the Following Documents (clean PDFs of "final drafts" attached - mark ups and Word versions to come on Wiki site at <https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/WP1+Draft+Documents> )

  Fundamental Bylaws (3B)

  Community Mechanism description (5A1)
  Community Mech - voting weights (5A2) -- NOTE an update to come yet from Bernie and Alan re quorums etc)
  Community Mech - ICANN community forum (5A3)
  
  Comm Power - Budgets and Plans (5B1)
  Comm Power - Standard Bylaws (5B2)
  Comm Power - Removal of ICANN directors (5B3)
  Comm Power - Recall of ICANN Board (5B4)

Note: Steve's paper on incorporating AOC reviews into the ICANN bylaws (6-2) had agreement to incorporate the text on document disclosure etc on 27 July, so that paper is done and dusted. It's attached just so there is a complete collection here, but is not for discussion. 


4. Next Task: Finalising responses to Public Comments from PC1

5. Any other matters


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Chief Executive 
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Email: jordan@internetnz.net.nz 
Skype: jordancarter

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