Dear Jorge, Thank you for this thoughtful raising of this matter. If I may ask a question about it - do you think that in building these changes, we should be trying to maintain the current balance of forces in ICANN, or trying to change them? If trying to change them, how would you see them being changed to support the public interest - that is, which group/s need more power, and which group/s less? bests, Jordan On 3 March 2015 at 22:11, <Jorge.Cancio@bakom.admin.ch> wrote:

Dear all

I would just like to share a general thought with you: I wonder whether the different accountability mechanism descriptions/proposals will be presented with an assessment of their impact on the "power structures" within ICANN and on the appropriate balance between parts of the community, most conductive to serve the global public interest.

Perhaps I'm missing this part as I've joined this process rather recently, but I'm not seeing this aspect covered in the templates and proposals of accountability measures

Best

Jorge Cancio

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Jorge: Apologies for the delayed response, but I agree that this should be a concern/consideration. In addition to ³balance² we should also consider the impact of new accountability mechanisms on the ³stability² of ICANN, the institution. Commercial (and non-commercial) organizations align their strategic plans to ICANN decisions & actions, and if these are vacillating or tied up in endless appeals procedures, it could introduce uncertainty into the DNS industry. Thanks‹ J. On 3/3/15, 7:11 , "Jorge.Cancio@bakom.admin.ch" <Jorge.Cancio@bakom.admin.ch> wrote:

Dear all

I would just like to share a general thought with you: I wonder whether the different accountability mechanism descriptions/proposals will be presented with an assessment of their impact on the "power structures" within ICANN and on the appropriate balance between parts of the community, most conductive to serve the global public interest.

Perhaps I'm missing this part as I've joined this process rather recently, but I'm not seeing this aspect covered in the templates and proposals of accountability measures

Best

Jorge Cancio

International Relations Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC Federal Office of Communications OFCOM Zukunftstrasse 44, CH 2501 Biel Tel. +41 58 460 54 58 (direct) Tel. +41 32 327 55 11 (office) Fax +41 58 460 54 66 mailto: jorge.cancio@bakom.admin.ch www.bakom.admin.ch _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community