Good suggestion, Daniel.

I was an active commenter/reviewer of the protocol parameters response from the IETF, and I sit on the steering group that approved it for publication.  

I have not been involved with the creation of the response from the numbering community beyond reading publicly available documents.

I am listed as a participant in the names community CWG. My involvement has been limited to reading the mailing list, providing an occasional opinion here and there, and occasionally joining the calls.

Alissa

On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:31 AM, Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net> wrote:

On 6.01.15 23:51 , Alissa Cooper wrote:

Hi all,

At some point late last year I believe we had a bit of group discussion

about how we will actually staff the process of assessing the community

proposals as they come in and any issues that may arise from the fact

that many of us are both serving on the ICG and have been involved in

the community processes. I thought it would be good to confirm that we

are generally in agreement about our approach to ensuring that the ICG

assessment is conducted in an independent and unbiased fashion even

though we all have our own community affiliations and have been involved

in the proposal development processes to different extents. To my mind

we have many safeguards in place to help us out here:

(1) Multitude of proposal reviews

As we receive proposals from the communities, my expectation is that we

will have many ICG members willing to review them against our assessment

criteria.* I think we should aim to have some reviewers for each

community proposal who are not affiliated with the community in question

and who did not participate in the proposal development process for that

community (as well as some who did). I imagine that through mere

solicitation of volunteers to review within our group we will achieve

this goal, but we should keep an eye out for it in any event. I think

this should help to provide a well-rounded assessment of each proposal.

(2) Charter limitations

Since by our charter we will not be altering the substance of the

proposals, I think the danger of any individual ICG member trying to

alter the substance of the proposals through the assessment process is

quite limited.

(3) Transparent proposal development processes

In my opinion the proposal development processes and participation in

them has been quite transparent. I think it’s easy to find out which of

us have been participating in which processes and only a little harder

to figure out what we have been advocating for. Because of this, I think

it will be fairly clear if any ICG member tries to use the assessment

process to achieve some end that did not obtain community consensus.

(4) Operating by ICG consensus

As a group we decided long ago to operate on a consensus basis, and I

think this provides a further defense against any individual ICG member

trying to bend the assessment process to achieve his or her own personal

objectives.

From my perspective the set of safeguards above is plenty robust to

ensure that as a group we can conduct a largely objective assessment of

the proposals. I would appreciate thoughts about this from the group. As

the proposals start to come in I think it will boost the communities’

confidence in us to have this articulated.

Thanks,

Alissa

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https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finalization-24dec14-en.pdf

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This makes sense to me.

I suggest that before we start the reviews each of us sends a message to this list describing their involvement, if any, in the development of proposals. This way all that is on record and we avoid accusations of hidden interests or actions.

For myself I can state that I have had no involvement with the proposals of the names and protocol parameters communities.

As a member of the RIPE community I have participated in the public discussion about the principles for the numbers proposal. As part of my job at the RIPE NCC I have provided advice to management about the development of the proposal. I have also worked actively within the RIR communities to explain the process and the work of the ICG.

Daniel

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