[ALAC] ICANN Accountability track news

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear ALAC,


SO/AC & SG Chairs have held a call on Monday to discuss the ICANN
Accountability track, the creation of working groups relating to this
track and its own relation to the NTIA stewardship transition track.

The call looked at a first draft of a diagram supplied by ICANN staff
and comments were received, some of them being quite negative about the
track itself. There was concern shown that the creation of two
additional committees would stress the volunteer community. There was
also concern shown that the Community Coordination Group on
Accountability & Governance would contain 7 advisors selected by the
Board Governance Committee. GNSO members also complained that the GNSO
would only have 1 person on this committee. Finally, for the Community
Assembly on Accountability & Governance, although up to 7 participants
could be appointed per SO/AC and 4 per SG, some call participants asked
that additional observers should be welcome. Others asked that the
Community Assembly on Accountability & Governance should actually be a
Cross Community Working Group (CWG), structured and selected as such -
and of course led by the community.

Please find attached the draft that Staff sent as a result of the
discussion. It is not vastly different from its first version and is
therefore likely to change - and I therefore ask for your comments that
I could relay to ICANN Staff.

On a related topic, as you know the ALAC has decided to delegate its
groundwork on the accountability track to the Future Challenges WG. As
we are at preliminary stage & the track has not started yet, I am
sending this email to the ALAC working list but as soon as the track
launches, discussion will take place in the FCWG.

Kindest regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ALAC Chair


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