CCWG Steamroller! ICANN 'Chattering' Organizations In Parallel Universe!

CCWG-Accountability Triumvirate (L-R): Mathieu Weill, Thomas Rickert, Leon Sanchez (ICANN.org photo)

You have to hand it to those CCWG guys--Mathieu, Thomas and Leon--they re-started the Steamroller that Thomas Rickert had test driven in LA, and look at what was accomplished in just a few hours at ICANN 54 today--after realizing the proposed 'Single Member Model' was DOA Dublin--the CCWG is now well on its way to:

1. Sole Designator Model replacing Single Member Model as the "reference model" for the final phase of CCWG-Accountability's work;
2. A New Timeline that delivers "Final Report" to the ICANN Board mid-January, 2016:

In order to accelerate the process, the timeline provides for "parallel" feedback from the ICANN Chartering Organizations (a/k/a Chattering Organizations) at the same time as the Report goes out for 3rd Public Comment. As commented by two people active in CCWG-accountability's work near the end of today's session:
We have a habit of fantasy timelines in this group...
We have a habit of wasting time and turning those fantasy timeline predictions into self fulfilling predictions.

Video, audio, and transcript of today's CCWG-Accountability's session will be posted here.

UPDATE: At the ICANN 54 Public Forum on October 22, 2015, Leon Sanchez, Co-chair reported a summary of key decisions and agreed-upon next steps:

• on the sole designator as referenced model for enforcement, the group reached broad agreement to move forward with the sole designator as the new reference for the model for the next draft proposal. 
• the group will next attempt to finalize patching the model to alleviate any outstanding concerns on the next draft proposal. 
• decision-making model. the group begun defining a consensus-based decision, make and model, which includes a community consultation period. discussions on the topic were informed on the second draft report about unintended concentration of power. 
• on the independent review process, the group confirmed support for the proposed IRP enhancements and is now moving into the implementation phase. to spearhead this phase, a drafting subgroup with expert support will be constructed to develop and draft bylaws and detailed operating procedures. 
• on the community power that refers to review and reject of the budget and operating plan, the group has identified a balanced process and approach for the one-year operating plan and budget which was an outstanding item coming into Dublin. 
• on the community power of recalling individual board directors, the group confirmed a decision method for removal of a director appointed by the nominating committee and a separate decision method for removal of a director appointed by an advisory committee or supporting organization. 
• in the mission and core values, the group confirmed its support for clarification of the mission statement and articulation of the commitments and core values. an example of our clarification includes icann's ability to enforce agreements with contracted parties subject to reasonable checks and balances. 
• on human rights, the group reached consensus to include a general human rights commitment into the bylaws. however, further work is needed on language and has been tasked to the human rights working party. 
• on the incorporation of affirmation of commitments into the bylaws, the group finalized outstanding details of the incorporation of the aoc review into the bylaws. there is high confidence that these bylaws are nearly ready for consideration in terms of implementation. 
• as regard to version 2, the group adopted a focused list of work stream 2 items, with an emphasis on transparency retirements. there was also broad agreement to bring some of these transparency requirements into work stream 1, in consideration of the discussions around the sole designator enforcement model. 
• .... the current time line proposes posting a high-level overview of recommendations and a summary of changes from the second draft proposal for a 35-day public comment period. on 15 november 2015. Alongside the 35-day public comment, the ccwg accountability will submit these resources to the chartering organizations for initial feedback. 

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ICANN CCWG-Accountability Co-Chair Comments on the Public Comments

Finished reading 89 comments. Mind blown. Some interesting, few fun. Thks to my fan @DomainMondo for shooting our report ;-) #icann #acct

— Mathieu Weill (@mathieuweill) September 14, 2015

Mathieu Weill is co-chair of ICANN's Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability). In the tweet embedded above he is referring to the public comments submitted in response to the CCWG's 2nd Draft Report (Work Stream 1), for which the comment period ended September 12. All of the comments submitted may be reviewed here.

Mathieu's reference to Domain Mondo above is in reference to the comment submitted by John Poole, editor of Domain Mondo, which may be read in full here (pdf), excerpts below:

To CCWG-Accountability:
".... Your proposal, though well-intentioned, is unacceptable and fundamentally flawed. You have failed to follow your own Charter, and in your “rush to meet a deadline” you have failed to achieve the charter’s stated goal: a proposal which enhances ICANN’s accountability towards all stakeholders—i.e., the global multi-stakeholder community. Instead, you have focused solely on a power-game of “who’s on top”--the ICANN Board of Directors or the few well-resourced, special interests, who dominate and control the so-called “ICANN stakeholder community” which is not representative of, nor even accountable to the global Internet community a/k/a global multi-stakeholder community. Your proposal does not “enhance ICANN’s accountability towards all stakeholders.” It does subject the ICANN Board of Directors to greater direct manipulation, control, and capture by the “special interests” which NTIA’s stewardship and the Affirmation of Commitments had prevented, to some degree. Your proposal, as it stands, is therefore not in the public interest, nor is it in the best interests of the global multi-stakeholder community. In fact, your proposal is a step backwards and will hasten the demise of ICANN within just a few years, at the insistence of a global multi-stakeholder community, fed up with the avarice of those self-serving “ICANN community stakeholders” or “special interests” who disrespect the values and ideals of Jon Postel and his peers as expressed in RFC 1591: “The designated manager [of a TLD] is the trustee of the top-level domain for … the global Internet community."  Whatever happened to the fiduciary standard of duties owed by gTLD (and ccTLD) registry operators to the global Internet community? .... Unless you are willing to backtrack and spend the necessary time—at a minimum, six months or more—to reconsider, redraft and correct your fundamentally flawed proposal, you should sit down in LA later this month and honestly try to work out something with the [ICANN] Board--setting aside your collective egos, your obvious “sunk cost bias” in favor of the CCWG proposal, and the “group think” clearly evident on your CCWG mail list. I suggest you listen closely to Mathieu Weill. I have been a close observer of your work since the beginning and I trust his judgment and leadership. I have reviewed the ICANN submittal of September 11, 2015, and while it is far from perfect, as best I understand it, a dialogue with the Board may help lead to a path forward. Frankly, the best thing that happened this year, in terms of improving or “enhancing” ICANN accountability, was the dotSUCKS fiasco, because now all of ICANN—stakeholders, directors, officers, staff, contracted parties, and service providers—are now on the radar of the US Federal Trade Commission, and probably the U.S. Justice Department as well. I agree with INTA [International Trademark Association], U.S. jurisdiction should be a fundamental bylaw. The potential for corruption, particularly within the ICANN Global Domains Division, is too great to allow ICANN to try to escape or evade prosecution by relocating to a “friendlier” jurisdiction. The global multi-stakeholder community really doesn’t need more FIFA-like scandals .... ICANN may need Board reform—that should have been priority #1. Almost every failing of ICANN can ultimately be attributed to a Board of Directors that was not activist, failed to question, failed to challenge stakeholders, management, staff or GAC advice, failed to be vigilant, pro-active. Therefore, review and improve processes for selecting members of the ICANN Board of Directors, which will lead to independent, activist, vigilant ICANN directors, reflective of the diversity of the global multi-stakeholder community, who will question, investigate, and push back (when necessary or appropriate) against policies advanced by self-interested ICANN stakeholders which are to the detriment of the global public interest or the global multi-stakeholder community; directors who will question and hold accountable ICANN officers, ICANN staff, GAC advice, and all ICANN stakeholders, including policy-making proposals, inquiring as to whether ICANN policies and principles have been followed ...." (emphasis added in sentence referring to Mathieu Weill)


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ICANN 53, Buenos Aires, Wednesday Schedule, Session Links (video)

Mathieu Weill, Co-Chair of the CCWG-Accountability reports on the chairs' briefings to various stakeholder groups June 23, 2015, at ICANN53 in Buenos Aires.

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Wednesday at ICANN 53: The full daily schedule is shown below. For online or remote participation for each session on Wednesday, follow the session links shown:

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

06:45 to 08:45 ART Fellowship Morning Meeting Libertador C
08:00 to 09:00 ART At-Large APRALO Monthly Meeting Golden Horn
08:00 to 09:00 ART GNSO-ccNSO CWG for a Framework of CWG Principles Retiro B
08:00 to 09:00 ART RySG - DNA Registry-Registrar Operations Working Group Auditorio
08:00 to 09:30 ART GNSO Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information PDP WG RetiroA
08:30 to 12:30 ART GAC Meetings (AM) - Wednesday 24 June San Telmo
09:00 to 10:00 ART At-Large Capacity Building Working Group Golden Horn
09:00 to 10:00 ART Whois Accuracy Specification Review Discussion [C] Retiro C
09:00 to 10:15 ART Contractual Compliance Program Updates and Q&A Session Libertador C
09:00 to 10:15 ART ICANN Operations Update Aguila
09:00 to 10:15 ART LAC SSR Session - Securing Internet Critical Infrastructure Libertador AB
09:00 to 15:15 ART DNSSEC Workshop Catalinas
09:00 to 15:30 ART ccNSO Members Meeting Day 2 La Pampa
09:30 to 10:30 ART RySG-Marketing a New Domain Name Registry-Sharing Insights Auditorio
09:30 to 11:00 ART NCSG - ICANNs Corp. and Soc. Resp. to Respect Human Rights Retiro B
09:45 to 10:45 ART Joint Meeting of the Board Governance Cmte. and NomCom [C] Martin Fierro
10:00 to 11:30 ART GNSO IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection PDP WG Retiro C
10:30 to 11:30 ART At-Large LACRALO Monthly Meeting Golden Horn
10:30 to 11:45 ART IDN Program Update Libertador C
10:30 to 12:00 ART AoC and Org. Reviews: Supporting ICANN Accountability Libertador AB
11:00 to 12:00 ART GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures DG Retiro B
11:30 to 14:00 ART NextGen@ICANN Lunch Session [C] Leisure Suit Larry
12:00 to 13:30 ART At-Large Regional Leadership Meeting Golden Horn
12:30 to 14:00 ART Caribbean Working Lunch [C] Aljibe
13:00 to 13:45 ART Joint Meeting of the ICANN Board and the SSAC [C] Martin Fierro
13:00 to 14:15 ART IDN Root Zone LGR Workshop Aguila
13:00 to 15:00 ART GNSO Council Libertador C
13:00 to 15:00 ART LAC ISPs and the Internet Unique Identifiers. Security Topics Libertador AB
13:30 to 14:45 ART Registrars and Law Enforcement Auditorio
14:00 to 15:00 ART Joint Meeting of the ASO/NRO with the ICANN Board Martin Fierro
14:00 to 15:30 ART At-Large AFRALO/AfrICANN Joint Meeting Golden Horn
14:00 to 18:00 ART GAC Communiqué Drafting Session [C] San Telmo
14:15 to 15:30 ART Registration Data Access Protocol: What’s Next? Retiro A
15:00 to 17:00 ART GNSO Privacy & Proxy Accreditation Services Issues PDP WG Retiro C
15:15 to 16:45 ART Joint Meeting of ICANN Board & Technical Experts Group [C] Martin Fierro
15:30 to 16:45 ART RSSAC Workshop Auditorio
15:30 to 17:00 ART ASO Address Council Public Meeting and Workshop Libertador C
15:30 to 17:00 ART CCWG-Accountability Working Session 2 Libertador AB
16:00 to 18:30 ART ccNSO Council Meeting La Pampa
17:00 to 18:00 ART NCSG-CC Working Party on Human Rights Retiro A
17:00 to 18:30 ART At-Large ICANN Academy Working Group Atalaya
17:00 to 18:30 ART Next Steps for Whois Accuracy Reporting Auditorio
17:00 to 18:30 ART Pre-CWG Seminar on New gTLD Auction Proceeds Retiro C
17:00 to 18:30 ART Thick Whois Policy Implementation-Meeting with the IRT Retiro B
17:30 to 18:45 ART CCWG-Internet Governance F2F Meeting Aguila
17:30 to 19:00 ART Fellowship Afternoon Session Libertador C
18:00 to 19:30 ART European Stakeholders Networking Event Aljibe
18:30 to 20:30 ART At-Large LACRALO Showcase Golden Horn


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