Kieren, as we have seen, the most effective way of doing this is be to make ALAC to renege themselves. That said, I am on record in front of a number of witnesses, as saying when we started with this: "This will be an enormous workload on the volunteers, and in the end ICANN is going to take the report and do whatever it wants, again". (I was a member of the gNSO Delete Task Force and the Exchange of Letters Task Force, where if I remember correctly not even waited for the final report). el On 2015-10-30 16:53 , Kieren McCarthy wrote:
A quick question: who has the authority to form and disband this working group?
Because one of the big problems identified in the past over ICANN accountability and transparency has been the fact that when a report is handed in, ICANN has decided that that group no longer exists.
And that has meant the ability to review or continue progress has been lost until years later when another group is formed.
I have no doubt whatsoever that ICANN will push to have work stream 1 limited and to kill off work stream 2. The most effective way to do that would be for the Board to simply declare this working group's work completed.
Can it do that? What would this group do in response if it did?
Kieren [...]