Board Response to Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum by GNSO's Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies
FYI Rinalia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steve Crocker" <steve@shinkuro.com> Date: Jul 8, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: [icann-board] Response to Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum by GNSO's Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies To: <mllemineur@gmail.com>, "William Drake" <wjdrake@gmail.com>, < rafik.dammak@gmail.com>, <krosette@cov.com>, "Elisa Cooper" < Elisa.Cooper@markmonitor.com>, <tonyarholmes@btinternet.com>, "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" <michele@blacknight.com>, "Keith Drazek" < keith.drazek@neustar.biz>, "Jonathan Robinson" < jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com> Cc: "Icann-board ICANN" <icann-board@icann.org>, "David Olive" < David.Olive@icann.org> Dear GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies, On behalf of the ICANN Board I thank you for your statement at the ICANN public forum on 26 June with regards to ICANN accountability. It's copied below for reference. The Board heard your statement and we agree that trust in ICANN's accountability processes and mechanisms is of great importance to present and future success. We look forward to your active participation in the already planned accountability track along with the rest of the community. This will be, as you note in your statement, an important area of ICANN’s work. And let me emphasize “your active participation.” This cannot be done without you. As you know, ICANN’s efforts to improve the accountability mechanisms are ongoing. The work that involves the community includes the work of the AoC ATRT process, with the most recent developments reflected in the Board approved ATRT2 recommendations during the ICANN 50 meeting. Thank you again for your input and we look forward to your continued work in this area. Kind regards, Steve Crocker Chairman, ICANN Board P.S. I hope I included everyone who participated in your statement. If not, please accept my apologies and forward to all the appropriate people. *Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum* I’m Keith Drazek, I’m Chair of the Registries Stakeholder Group, with me are the leaders of all of the GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies. I’m happy to report that the GNSO community took up Fadi’s challenge from the Opening Ceremony to seek harmony this week in London. Instead of a song or two, the statement we’re about to read represents an unprecedented -- yes unprecedented -- event. It only took us 50 meetings, but I think the rarity of what you’re witnessing this afternoon sends a very strong message about our views. The GNSO community, with all our diversity and occasionally competing interests, has come together to unanimously support the following: The entire GNSO joins together today calling for the Board to support community creation of an independent accountability mechanism that provides meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community. This deserves the Board's serious consideration - not only does it reflect an unprecedented level of consensus across the entire GNSO community, it is a necessary and integral element of the IANA stewardship transition. True accountability does not mean ICANN is only accountable to itself, or to some vague definition of "the world." It does not mean that governments should have the ultimate say over community policy without regard to the rule of law. Rather, the Board's decisions must be open to challenge and theBoard cannot be in a position of reviewing and certifying its own decisions. We need an independent accountability structure that holds the ICANN Board, Staff, and various stakeholder groups accountable under ICANN's governing documents, serves as an ultimate review of Board/Staff decisions, and through the creation of precedent, creates prospective guidance for the board, the staff, and the entire community. As part of the IANA stewardship transition, the multi-stakeholder community has the opportunity and responsibility to propose meaningful accountability structures that go beyond just the IANA-specific accountability issues. We are committed to coming together and developing recommendations for creation of these mechanisms. We ask the ICANN Board and Staff to fulfill their obligations and support this community driven, multi-stakeholder initiative. _______________________________________________ icann-board mailing list icann-board@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/icann-board
Thanks Rinalia. This is very useful information. It seems to me that Steve’s response let’s us see that there’s an “already planned accountability track” in which regardless of our active participation or not, the goal’s been set and it would seem it’s just a matter of “process” to get to where said track has already set the finish line. Furthermore, it surprises me that he emphasizes “your active participation” as if the community hadn’t been active on the subject. Suddenly it seems that all those statements that have been sent to the Board and which have been disregarded, didn’t even exist to begin with to the eyes of the Board. That worries me and hope worries others as well. As an incoming member of the Board, which would you consider to be “active participation” by Acs/SOs enough to be taken into account by the Board? Would it be fair to say that “active participation” depends at some level on “active consideration and action in consequence” by the Board? All the best, León El 07/07/2014, a las 18:09, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com> escribió:
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Rinalia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steve Crocker" <steve@shinkuro.com> Date: Jul 8, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: [icann-board] Response to Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum by GNSO's Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies To: <mllemineur@gmail.com>, "William Drake" <wjdrake@gmail.com>, < rafik.dammak@gmail.com>, <krosette@cov.com>, "Elisa Cooper" < Elisa.Cooper@markmonitor.com>, <tonyarholmes@btinternet.com>, "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" <michele@blacknight.com>, "Keith Drazek" < keith.drazek@neustar.biz>, "Jonathan Robinson" < jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com> Cc: "Icann-board ICANN" <icann-board@icann.org>, "David Olive" < David.Olive@icann.org>
Dear GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies,
On behalf of the ICANN Board I thank you for your statement at the ICANN public forum on 26 June with regards to ICANN accountability. It's copied below for reference.
The Board heard your statement and we agree that trust in ICANN's accountability processes and mechanisms is of great importance to present and future success. We look forward to your active participation in the already planned accountability track along with the rest of the community. This will be, as you note in your statement, an important area of ICANN’s work. And let me emphasize “your active participation.” This cannot be done without you.
As you know, ICANN’s efforts to improve the accountability mechanisms are ongoing. The work that involves the community includes the work of the AoC ATRT process, with the most recent developments reflected in the Board approved ATRT2 recommendations during the ICANN 50 meeting.
Thank you again for your input and we look forward to your continued work in this area.
Kind regards,
Steve Crocker
Chairman, ICANN Board
P.S. I hope I included everyone who participated in your statement. If not, please accept my apologies and forward to all the appropriate people.
*Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum* I’m Keith Drazek, I’m Chair of the Registries Stakeholder Group, with me are the leaders of all of the GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies.
I’m happy to report that the GNSO community took up Fadi’s challenge from the Opening Ceremony to seek harmony this week in London. Instead of a song or two, the statement we’re about to read represents an unprecedented -- yes unprecedented -- event. It only took us 50 meetings, but I think the rarity of what you’re witnessing this afternoon sends a very strong message about our views. The GNSO community, with all our diversity and occasionally competing interests, has come together to unanimously support the following:
The entire GNSO joins together today calling for the Board to support community creation of an independent accountability mechanism that provides meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community.
This deserves the Board's serious consideration - not only does it reflect an unprecedented level of consensus across the entire GNSO community, it is a necessary and integral element of the IANA stewardship transition.
True accountability does not mean ICANN is only accountable to itself, or to some vague definition of "the world." It does not mean that governments should have the ultimate say over community policy without regard to the rule of law. Rather, the Board's decisions must be open to challenge and theBoard cannot be in a position of reviewing and certifying its own decisions.
We need an independent accountability structure that holds the ICANN Board, Staff, and various stakeholder groups accountable under ICANN's governing documents, serves as an ultimate review of Board/Staff decisions, and through the creation of precedent, creates prospective guidance for the board, the staff, and the entire community.
As part of the IANA stewardship transition, the multi-stakeholder community has the opportunity and responsibility to propose meaningful accountability structures that go beyond just the IANA-specific accountability issues. We are committed to coming together and developing recommendations for creation of these mechanisms. We ask the ICANN Board and Staff to fulfill their obligations and support this community driven, multi-stakeholder initiative.
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Hi, Leon. The Accountability track mentioned by Steve refers to this - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/enhancing-accountability-2014-05-06-en . The ICANN community was invited to comment on the document and also to select its representatives to the soon to be established Accountability Working Group. What the board is saying is that it takes the work of enhancing ICANN's accountability seriously and that it will work with the ICANN community to do so. It is also saying that the work cannot be done without the participation of the community. The finish line will be determined by the work of the Working Group, which will involve consultations with the broader ICANN community. The Board's message has lots of goodwill in it. It is a response to a group comment at the public forum that wants certain changes to aspects of ICANN accountability. Rather than create a separate process for dealing with that, the Board is pointing out that a mechanism for enhancing accountability that involves the community is underway and it invites the group to participate actively together with other members of the community. It would be good if the ALAC sends its strongest accountability experts to the Working Group. Best regards, Rinalia On Jul 8, 2014 7:25 AM, "León Felipe Sánchez Ambía" <leonfelipe@sanchez.mx> wrote:
Thanks Rinalia. This is very useful information.
It seems to me that Steve’s response let’s us see that there’s an “already planned accountability track” in which regardless of our active participation or not, the goal’s been set and it would seem it’s just a matter of “process” to get to where said track has already set the finish line. Furthermore, it surprises me that he emphasizes “your active participation” as if the community hadn’t been active on the subject. Suddenly it seems that all those statements that have been sent to the Board and which have been disregarded, didn’t even exist to begin with to the eyes of the Board. That worries me and hope worries others as well.
As an incoming member of the Board, which would you consider to be “active participation” by Acs/SOs enough to be taken into account by the Board? Would it be fair to say that “active participation” depends at some level on “active consideration and action in consequence” by the Board?
All the best,
León
El 07/07/2014, a las 18:09, Rinalia Abdul Rahim < rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com> escribió:
FYI
Rinalia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steve Crocker" <steve@shinkuro.com> Date: Jul 8, 2014 1:30 AM Subject: [icann-board] Response to Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum by GNSO's Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies To: <mllemineur@gmail.com>, "William Drake" <wjdrake@gmail.com>, < rafik.dammak@gmail.com>, <krosette@cov.com>, "Elisa Cooper" < Elisa.Cooper@markmonitor.com>, <tonyarholmes@btinternet.com>, "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" <michele@blacknight.com>, "Keith Drazek" < keith.drazek@neustar.biz>, "Jonathan Robinson" < jonathan.robinson@ipracon.com> Cc: "Icann-board ICANN" <icann-board@icann.org>, "David Olive" < David.Olive@icann.org>
Dear GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies,
On behalf of the ICANN Board I thank you for your statement at the ICANN public forum on 26 June with regards to ICANN accountability. It's copied below for reference.
The Board heard your statement and we agree that trust in ICANN's accountability processes and mechanisms is of great importance to present and future success. We look forward to your active participation in the already planned accountability track along with the rest of the community. This will be, as you note in your statement, an important area of ICANN’s work. And let me emphasize “your active participation.” This cannot be done without you.
As you know, ICANN’s efforts to improve the accountability mechanisms are ongoing. The work that involves the community includes the work of the AoC ATRT process, with the most recent developments reflected in the Board approved ATRT2 recommendations during the ICANN 50 meeting.
Thank you again for your input and we look forward to your continued work in this area.
Kind regards,
Steve Crocker
Chairman, ICANN Board
P.S. I hope I included everyone who participated in your statement. If not, please accept my apologies and forward to all the appropriate people.
*Statement made during the ICANN 50 Public Forum* I’m Keith Drazek, I’m Chair of the Registries Stakeholder Group, with me are the leaders of all of the GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies.
I’m happy to report that the GNSO community took up Fadi’s challenge from the Opening Ceremony to seek harmony this week in London. Instead of a song or two, the statement we’re about to read represents an unprecedented -- yes unprecedented -- event. It only took us 50 meetings, but I think the rarity of what you’re witnessing this afternoon sends a very strong message about our views. The GNSO community, with all our diversity and occasionally competing interests, has come together to unanimously support the following:
The entire GNSO joins together today calling for the Board to support community creation of an independent accountability mechanism that provides meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community.
This deserves the Board's serious consideration - not only does it reflect an unprecedented level of consensus across the entire GNSO community, it is a necessary and integral element of the IANA stewardship transition.
True accountability does not mean ICANN is only accountable to itself, or to some vague definition of "the world." It does not mean that governments should have the ultimate say over community policy without regard to the rule of law. Rather, the Board's decisions must be open to challenge and theBoard cannot be in a position of reviewing and certifying its own decisions.
We need an independent accountability structure that holds the ICANN Board, Staff, and various stakeholder groups accountable under ICANN's governing documents, serves as an ultimate review of Board/Staff decisions, and through the creation of precedent, creates prospective guidance for the board, the staff, and the entire community.
As part of the IANA stewardship transition, the multi-stakeholder community has the opportunity and responsibility to propose meaningful accountability structures that go beyond just the IANA-specific accountability issues. We are committed to coming together and developing recommendations for creation of these mechanisms. We ask the ICANN Board and Staff to fulfill their obligations and support this community driven, multi-stakeholder initiative.
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