Hello all, The notes, recordings and transcripts for WS2 SO/AC Accountability Subgroup Meeting #8 – 6 October 2016 will be available here: https://community.icann.org/x/gQW4Aw A copy of the notes may be found below. Thank you. With kind regards, Brenda Brewer MSSI Projects & Operations Assistant ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Action Item: ACTION ITEM: Rapporteurs to update the Google Doc so the Participants can continue to make comments on the draft questions so they can be review at the next session of the group. Notes 1. Review (brief) of last call #7 held on Sept 22nd and any Action Items Business Arising: ACTION ITEM- (prior call) Group to propose and place draft questions in Google Docs/wiki page for the group to review at next meeting Discussion of the draft questions contained in the Google Doc at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xigRIH7gE8NXEf6I0asyM6rUbGmbzHFcy0RGUZA84RY/edit?usp=drive_web[docs.google.com] Review of the comments that have been submitted to date, will accept the grammar corrections, will focus on substantive comments. Request that members consider adding additional comments. Review of specific comments that were added to the draft questions: Rosalia Morales As a first question I would ask the Chair to specify their respective designated community¨ their SO/AC serves to make sure we are all talking about the same thing. Giovanni Seppia -What are the published policies and procedures by which your SO/AC is accountable to the designated community that you serve, including include procedures to encourage participation by that designated community, and transparency about your SO/AC deliberations, decisions, eligibility, and elections? Please include link where they can be consulted - Were these policies and procedures updated over the past decade? If so, could you clarify if they were updated to respond to specific community requests/concerns? - Do your SO/AC have mechanisms by which your members can challenge or appeal decisions and elections? Please include link where they can be consulted. - Do your SO/AC maintain unwritten policies that are relevant to this exercise? If so, please describe as specifically as you are able. To the extent that there are multiple stakeholder groups or constituencies in your SO/AC, please forward this request accordingly. Greg Shatan - Does this refer to the actual members of a given SO/AC/SG/C/RALO or to the global community? Shouldn't this be differentiated? Being accountable to membership is not the same thing as being accountable to, e.g., all Internet end users or all ISPs. - To the extent that there are multiple stakeholder groups or constituencies in your SO/AC, please forward this request accordingly. It's not clear from this question whether the individual stakeholder groups and constituencies are expected to answer this question with regard to (a) the SO or AC as a whole, (b) the particular stakeholder group or constituency, or (c) other stakeholder groups and constituencies within that SO, or more than one of the above. This needs to be clear before this goes out. - More fundamentally, it's not clear to me that individual SG/C/RALO etc. accountability falls into the remit of this Subgroup. ACTION ITEM: Rapporteurs to update the Google Doc so the Participants can continue to make comments on the draft questions so they can be review at the next session of the group. 2 Discussion Topic Review and Discussion on Draft text of questions for current version of comments at meeting time. Discussion of Update and progress reporting for Hyderabad see Standard Form of Reporting <slide attached> and tracking document / report... What can we share with CCWG at Hyderabad Meeting? - Discussion of presenting a progress report in Hyderabad CCWG meeting.and the report template. Proposal for reporting - proposal to develop two tracks While waiting for responses to Questions, start track on IRP reporting. Suggestion to go through precious reports and update questions that had been identified for the report and update the details that the group has discussed and has responses for the report. Will start a fresh PowerPoint to capture the groups work and progress on its topic. Also need to consider specific questions that the Plenary should consider in the afternoon of the meeting in Hyderabad for inclusion in the report. 3. AOB - No other business Noted: that the next meeting will focus on the staff paper.