Whereas,
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<!--[endif]-->The GNSO Council, together with other ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, chartered the Cross-Community
Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) on 13 November 2014 ‘to deliver proposals that would enhance ICANN’s accountability towards all stakeholders.
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<!--[endif]-->The CCWG-Accountability published its third draft proposal for public comment on 30 November 2015 (see
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-ccwg-accountability-proposal-2015-11-30-en).
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<!--[endif]-->All GNSO Stakeholder Groups (SGs) and/or Constituencies (Cs) submitted their input on the third draft proposal and its 12 recommendations.
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<!--[endif]-->A GNSO Council sub-team was formed to review the input submitted by the GNSO SG/Cs and make a recommendation to the GNSO Council
concerning a possible joint GNSO position on the third draft proposal .
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<!--[endif]-->The GNSO Council has reviewed the input provided by the sub-team on the CCWG-Accountability Third Draft Proposal.
Resolved,
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<!--[endif]-->The GNSO Council views on the recommendations contained in the CCWG-Accountability Third Draft Proposal are as follows:
Recommendation #1 |
Establishing An Empowered Community For Enforcing Community Powers for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #2 |
Empowering The Community Through Consensus: Engage, Escalate, Enforce for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
|
Recommendation #3 |
Redefining ICANN’s Bylaws As ‘Standard Bylaws’ And ‘Fundamental Bylaws’ for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
|
Recommendation #4 |
Ensuring Community Involvement In ICANN Decision-Making: Seven New Community Powers for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #5 |
Changing Aspects Of ICANN's Mission, Commitments And Core Values for more information) |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
|
Recommendation #6 |
Reaffirming ICANN's Commitment to Respect Internationally Recognized Human Rights as it Carries Out Its Mission for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #7 |
Strengthening ICANN's Independent Review Process for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #8 |
Improving ICANN's Request For Reconsideration Process for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #9 |
Incorporation of the Affirmation of Commitments for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #10 |
Enhancing the Accountability of Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees for more information |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #11 |
Board obligations regarding GAC Advice |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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Recommendation #12 |
Committing to further accountability work in Work Stream 2 |
GNSO Council Support |
General Support / Limited Support with some opposition / No support |
Comments |
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<!--[endif]-->The GNSO Council instructs the GNSO Secretariat to share this GNSO Council input on the CCWG-Accountability Third Draft Proposal
with the Chairs of the CCWG-Accountability as soon as possible.
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<!--[endif]-->Although this GNSO input is submitted after the close of the public comment period, the GNSO Council expects the CCWG-Accountability
to give this input due consideration as it is the aggregation of the individual GNSO SG/C positions that were submitted before the deadline.
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<!--[endif]-->The GNSO Council appreciates all the efforts of the CCWG-Accountability to deliver its final proposal to the Chartering Organizations
in a timely manner and looks forward to considering the final proposal in due time.