[ALAC] ICANN Accountability track news

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Evan,

On 06/08/2014 10:10, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> So every AC and SO gets to appoint up to 7 people to the Assembly,
> except for the GNSO which gets .... 16?

Yes -- and this is not the final discussion. Some are now saying the two
groups should be merged and run like a CCWG. So everything is up in the
air. What's surprising is that Staff have gone so far down the line in
making a proposal without consulting the Community. So they are faced
with pushback from all corners. This is the error we nearly committee in
the ICANN Academy when the ALAC working group led by Sandra Hoferichter
developed a program and we had to take 5 to 6 months to reassure
everyone and put them in the loop so as for it to be accepted
ICANN-wide. I guess nobody from ICANN staff remembered this.

>
> And if I read this right we have an immediate need to choose 7 people
> for the assembly and 1 person for the coordination group. How do you
> anticipate these people will be chosen? By a similar process to that
> which chose the IANA CG reps? Or will that selection be delegated to
> the FCWG?

The ALT discussed this. It was felt that the selection process for NTIA
Stewardship Transition was quite a good process to keep. The members of
the selection committee have been asked if they are happy to remain in
the selection committee and anyone who will run for positions in the
coordination groups will need to stand down from the selection
committee. Once we have responses, we'll ask RALOs to suggest anyone
from regions that are under-represented in the selection committee so as
to balance it regionally -- and then we'll launch a call for candidates
for the coordinating group.

That said, there is also current strong pushback from the GNSO for the
current structure of assembly & coordinating group, so what's in this
diagram, version 13, might not be what we end up with at all! Are *you*
ok with the two groups?

>
> The graphic notes that the Assembly will meet at ICANN51, however no
> such schedule has been offered for the coordination group.

I think that they're still far from knowing what will happen then...

Kind regards,

Olivier