[ALAC-Announce] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Revised Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

ICANN News Alert
ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>


    News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-10-10-en

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    Revised Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps

10 October 2014

ICANN today published Revised Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process
and Next Steps
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-10-10-en>, a
document that describes the process to examine how, from an
organizational perspective, ICANN's accountability mechanisms should be
strengthened to address the absence of its historical relationship with
the U.S. Government. This revision incorporates comments from a further
21-day comment period
<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/enhancing-accountability-2014-09-05-en>
from 6-27 September 2014.

We appreciate and apologize that this is being posted so close to the
ICANN meeting. However, we wanted to provide the revised process to the
community so it is available for the ICANN 51 meeting.

On 14 March 2014 the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) announced
<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions>
its intent to transition its stewardship of the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the global multistakeholder
community. NTIA asked ICANN, as the IANA functions contractor and global
coordinator for the Domain Name System (DNS), to convene a
multistakeholder process to develop a proposal for the transition, which
would end ICANN's contractual relationship with the U.S. Government that
has existed since 1998. That historical relationship has been perceived
as a backstop with regard to ICANN's organization-wide accountability.

ICANN received 17 comments
<http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06sep14/> during
the 21-day further comment period. Based on the input received, ICANN
proposes integrating the originally proposed two-group structure into a
single Cross Community Working Group (CCWG), in reflection of the strong
community support for the CCWG model. Additionally, given the input over
the course of the discussions on this process, it's suggested that the
CCWG has two work steams: one focused on accountability in light of
ICANN's changing historical relationship with the U.S. Government; and
the second, on the broader accountability issues the community would
like to bring to the forefront.

The Revised Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps
document can be found here
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-10-10-en>
[PDF
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/process-next-steps-pdf-10oct14-en.pdf>,
350 KB]

A Summary Report of Public Comments received on the proposed process can
be found here
<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-enhancing-accountability-10oct14-en.pdf>
[PDF, 506 KB].

Public comments received can be found here
<http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06sep14/>.



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