Analysis of the Reconsideration Request Process
Dear all, In the post enclosed below, I have detailed out our experiences, at the Centre for Internet and Society, with ICANN’s Reconsideration Process. In trying to understand this rather fascinating process, I attempted to make a statistical analysis of the 144 Reconsideration Requests that ICANN has received/responded to (As of February 29, 2016). These have included grievances ranging from unfulfilled DIDP requests to issues with timely provision of minutes, to issues with the gTLD programme. The kind of numbers that that this tabular analysis threw up were fairly disturbing: 1. The Reconsideration Committee/Board Governance Committee has* denied 118 of the 144 requests* – an incredible 81.9% 2. Of the 144 requests, *6 were withdrawn* by the requester before ICANN responded. 3. I was *unable to find publicly available responses to 8 out of 144 requests*, one dating back up to 2000, and the most recent ones, presumably still being processed, from 2016. 4. For only *12 out of 144* – a mere 8.3%, either the Committee has responded favourably, or the action against which reconsideration was sought has itself been remedied. 5. The Committee does not seem to have a single uniform time binding its processing of the requests – the number of days that it takes for there to be a proper response has ranged from 7 days to over a 100 days. 89 of the 144 requests have taken more than 30 days to process, and there has not always been an attempt towards a proper explanation for the same. This is quite contradictory to the wording of the By-Laws, which holds that the Committee should attempt to make a recommendation within 30 days. (See Article IV, Section 2 of the Bylaws) The table may be viewed here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p_sATPBLr264JQC82f8CtPqfA8qdLSN_ySjA... I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same. Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [image: Inline image 1][image: Inline image 2] Regards Padmini Baruah Programme Associate, Internet Governance Centre for Internet and Society
The graph is barely legible and might benefit from some outlier removal. If you use R to generate, there are packages readily available... el On 2016-02-29 15:08, Padmini wrote: [...]
I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same.
Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [...]
-- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/
Thanks for the feedback. The Google spreadsheet has huge legible graphs under the tabs titled Chart and Pie, respectively. These are just thumbnails of those. Hope that helps. And would be glad if you could direct me to proper software, my knowledge of these things is very rudimentary. Thank you. Padmini Baruah V Year, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) NLSIU, Bangalore On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na> wrote:
The graph is barely legible and might benefit from some outlier removal.
If you use R to generate, there are packages readily available...
el
On 2016-02-29 15:08, Padmini wrote: [...]
I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same.
Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [...]
-- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
Lack of knowledge can be decreased by study, and Google is your friend. el -- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4
On 29 Feb 2016, at 15:20, Padmini <pdmnbaruah@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. The Google spreadsheet has huge legible graphs under the tabs titled Chart and Pie, respectively. These are just thumbnails of those. Hope that helps. And would be glad if you could direct me to proper software, my knowledge of these things is very rudimentary.
Thank you.
Padmini Baruah V Year, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) NLSIU, Bangalore
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na> wrote: The graph is barely legible and might benefit from some outlier removal.
If you use R to generate, there are packages readily available...
el
On 2016-02-29 15:08, Padmini wrote: [...]
I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same.
Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [...]
-- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
When it comes to 'R', Dr Lisse is everybody's friend . . . He's an advocate for it! On 29/02/16 14:30, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
Lack of knowledge can be decreased by study, and Google is your friend.
el
-- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4
On 29 Feb 2016, at 15:20, Padmini <pdmnbaruah@gmail.com <mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. The Google spreadsheet has huge legible graphs under the tabs titled Chart and Pie, respectively. These are just thumbnails of those. Hope that helps. And would be glad if you could direct me to proper software, my knowledge of these things is very rudimentary.
Thank you.
Padmini Baruah V Year, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) NLSIU, Bangalore
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na <mailto:el@lisse.na>> wrote:
The graph is barely legible and might benefit from some outlier removal.
If you use R to generate, there are packages readily available...
el
On 2016-02-29 15:08, Padmini wrote: [...] > I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same. > > Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [...]
-- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA <mailto:el@lisse.na> / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 <tel:%2B264%2081%20124%206733> (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org <mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
Noted. :) software glitchiness aside, would also really appreciate some direction with the work, considering I am still very new to the ecosystem, and , as I see it, this process has evolved differently over the years. On Feb 29, 2016 8:02 PM, "Nigel Roberts" <nigel@channelisles.net> wrote:
When it comes to 'R', Dr Lisse is everybody's friend . . . He's an advocate for it!
On 29/02/16 14:30, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
Lack of knowledge can be decreased by study, and Google is your friend.
el
-- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4
On 29 Feb 2016, at 15:20, Padmini <pdmnbaruah@gmail.com <mailto:pdmnbaruah@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. The Google spreadsheet has huge legible
graphs under the tabs titled Chart and Pie, respectively. These are just thumbnails of those. Hope that helps. And would be glad if you could direct me to proper software, my knowledge of these things is very rudimentary.
Thank you.
Padmini Baruah V Year, B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) NLSIU, Bangalore
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na <mailto:el@lisse.na>> wrote:
The graph is barely legible and might benefit from some outlier removal.
If you use R to generate, there are packages readily available...
el
On 2016-02-29 15:08, Padmini wrote: [...] > I have enclosed my post as well as my charts for the same. > > Any comments and feedback would be welcome! [...]
-- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) el@lisse.NA <mailto:el@lisse.na> / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 <tel:%2B264%2081%20124%206733> (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org <mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
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