Community Input into ICANN’s CCWG
Accountability Work Stream
2 Draft Report
NPOC Colleagues,
Much of the work of ICANN and those of us
engaged in its
multistakeholder activities involves Internet governance policy
development
within ICANN’s remit, generally defined as the security and
stability of the
global domain name system (DNS). Most of that work has to do with
arriving at a
consensus on best practices in ICANN’s DNS policies.
However, sometimes something goes wrong, and
one of the work
stream tasks for ICANN in the now post-IANA Transition stage is to
develop
processes for accountability, both with regard to the board, and
possibly for when
issues arise elsewhere within the domain of ICANN’s activities.
To this end a cross community working group (CCWG-Accountability Work
Stream 2) was formed
and charged to develop guidelines for standards of conduct
presumed to be in
good faith associated with exercising removal of individual
Directors of the
ICANN Board. It may be the case that such guidelines for standards
of conduct
could also be applied to other issues within the scope of ICANNs
activities.
The Accountability CCWG has posted a draft of
its report and
is requesting input from ICANN’s multistakeholder communities.
Background
information and links to the draft report can be found at:
Background Information
The draft report is at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ccwg-accountability-ws2-good-faith-01feb17-en.pdf
Comments can be posted at: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/enhancing-accountability-guidelines-good-faith-2017-03-07-en
.
The draft report is only 8 pages long and easy
to read.
The comment
period extends 48 days from today, which makes April 24th
the cut-off
date for comments.
Have your say.
Sam Lanfranco,
NPOC/csih