Dear ALAC, SO/AC & SG Chairs have held a call on Monday to discuss the ICANN Accountability track, the creation of working groups relating to this track and its own relation to the NTIA stewardship transition track. The call looked at a first draft of a diagram supplied by ICANN staff and comments were received, some of them being quite negative about the track itself. There was concern shown that the creation of two additional committees would stress the volunteer community. There was also concern shown that the Community Coordination Group on Accountability & Governance would contain 7 advisors selected by the Board Governance Committee. GNSO members also complained that the GNSO would only have 1 person on this committee. Finally, for the Community Assembly on Accountability & Governance, although up to 7 participants could be appointed per SO/AC and 4 per SG, some call participants asked that additional observers should be welcome. Others asked that the Community Assembly on Accountability & Governance should actually be a Cross Community Working Group (CWG), structured and selected as such - and of course led by the community. Please find attached the draft that Staff sent as a result of the discussion. It is not vastly different from its first version and is therefore likely to change - and I therefore ask for your comments that I could relay to ICANN Staff. On a related topic, as you know the ALAC has decided to delegate its groundwork on the accountability track to the Future Challenges WG. As we are at preliminary stage & the track has not started yet, I am sending this email to the ALAC working list but as soon as the track launches, discussion will take place in the FCWG. Kindest regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair A new diagram was