Regarding the Affirmation of Commitments to the US Government
Hello All, Just to clarify that I have been on the Board since the Affirmation of Commitments was signed with the US Government. There has been no discussion on the Board during that time to terminate the agreement. I have heard discussions at different times to have a way to make the same affirmation to other Governments or the global public as a whole. The suggestions so far to incorporate the key elements into the bylaws make sense to me. Even if the Board was contemplating any change to the AoC - it would be done through an extensive community consultation process. Regards, Bruce Tonkin
Bruce, Thank you again for your valuable confirmation. Please note that, as I did emphasize many time, AoC was crafted to establish the relation between USG and ICANN as IANA Function Operator. After the transition of the Steward of the Functions from USG to so-called ,undefined and unspecified and vague entity as Global Multistakeholder Community, the AoC in question needs to be amended to refelct the new enviroment Who is addressing this matter and how and more importantly at what time frame, See Recent Statement by Larry ) Kavouss 2015-02-01 4:38 GMT+01:00 Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>:
Hello All,
Just to clarify that I have been on the Board since the Affirmation of Commitments was signed with the US Government.
There has been no discussion on the Board during that time to terminate the agreement.
I have heard discussions at different times to have a way to make the same affirmation to other Governments or the global public as a whole.
The suggestions so far to incorporate the key elements into the bylaws make sense to me.
Even if the Board was contemplating any change to the AoC - it would be done through an extensive community consultation process.
Regards, Bruce Tonkin
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Kavouss — Our CCWG is addressing how to change the AoC as part of the IANA transition. One requirement we discussed in Frankfurt was: [cid:033444BA-4E41-4D16-AD2E-00D7634BC6BD] It’s now a task of the CCCWGG work team on Community Empowerment to decribe mechanisms/Bylaws changes to bring the AoC into ICANN’s permanent accountability structure. From the inventory<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/51414327/WA2%20Inventory%20...> that Work Area 2 developed last year, here are several potential mechanisms: Bring the Affirmation of Commitments (incl the Reviews) into the ICANN bylaws, with these amendments: ICANN Members or permanent Cross-Community Working Group to select Affirmation Review teams Affirmation Review Teams get access to all internal documents Affirmation Accountability & Transparency Review Team could recommend sunset of original reviews and create new reviews Change Affirmation reviews from “in the public interest” to “for protection and advance of human rights and internet freedoms” Replace Affirmation with accountability contract between ICANN and ‘Contract Co.’ — Steve DelBianco From: Kavouss Arasteh <kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com<mailto:kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com>> Date: Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 7:33 AM To: Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au<mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>> Cc: "accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>" <accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Regarding the Affirmation of Commitments to the US Government Bruce, Thank you again for your valuable confirmation. Please note that, as I did emphasize many time, AoC was crafted to establish the relation between USG and ICANN as IANA Function Operator. After the transition of the Steward of the Functions from USG to so-called ,undefined and unspecified and vague entity as Global Multistakeholder Community, the AoC in question needs to be amended to refelct the new enviroment Who is addressing this matter and how and more importantly at what time frame, See Recent Statement by Larry ) Kavouss 2015-02-01 4:38 GMT+01:00 Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au<mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>>: Hello All, Just to clarify that I have been on the Board since the Affirmation of Commitments was signed with the US Government. There has been no discussion on the Board during that time to terminate the agreement. I have heard discussions at different times to have a way to make the same affirmation to other Governments or the global public as a whole. The suggestions so far to incorporate the key elements into the bylaws make sense to me. Even if the Board was contemplating any change to the AoC - it would be done through an extensive community consultation process. Regards, Bruce Tonkin _______________________________________________ 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
On 1/31/15 7:38 PM, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
The suggestions so far to incorporate the key elements into the bylaws make sense to me.
I suggest that for our purposes, we may dispense with BC#1. I made the same observation on 12/15/2014, five weeks ago. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon
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Bruce Tonkin -
Eric Brunner-Williams -
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Steve DelBianco