This blog post takes a seemingly legalistic and obscure set of rules and shows how it is very important for the ICANN accountability reforms.
My comments are intended to help NCSG develop public comments on the IRP rules, hope people can follow up. We still have time to fix the problem if we act. 

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2017/01/07/putting-your-rights-on-the-clock-the-irp-supplementary-rules/


Dr. Milton L Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet Governance Project 
http://internetgovernance.org/