Hmm. I would agree that the community en masse needs to be accountable through processes that require accountability at all levels of policy development. I disagree in characterising that accountability as bi-directional. I don’t see why the community needs to be accountable to the board, but to be honest, I haven’t given that much thought before. I think the top of the process needs to be accountable to the bottom, not the other way around. For example, as an NCSG representative on the GNSO Council, I believe I need to be accountable to the NCSG membership. I do not believe I owe any accountability to the GNSO Chair, or the ICANN board. In fact, bi-directional accountability in my case may present me with unavoidable conflicts.
I was never really comfortable with the idea of directly involving the ICANN SOs and ACs in the oversight or decision-making processes of IANA.Well the task is to transition to multistakeholder community and the RIR community for instance has always ensured that its community developed policy is what is used to operate functions related to numbers....such needs to be ensured with names. That is what i mean by involvement, not necessarily giving SOs and ACs direct postsitions/roles to manage IANA but making sure their policies and collective views influence the manner by which IANA operate.Great. So we are in agreement there. However, the task was never, strictly-speaking, “to transition to multistakeholder community”. Rather ICANN was tasked to convene a process by which the global multi-stakeholder community determines how best the stewardship transition takes place. There was no predetermined outcome stipulating where the stewardship was required to land. Only conditions limiting capture by certain stakeholders (governments and inter-governmental organisations) in addition to some other prerequisites the NTIA has set.
As a member of the NCSG policy committee, I cannot endorse a statement by this stakeholder group that says external oversight is unnecessary in the event that certain accountability measures are taken.
I hope that you and others who believe this to be the case don’t take it personally. I just simply don’t see it that way. It is my understanding that that is the majority opinion here as well.
Thanks.Amr
Seun Ojedeji,
Federal University Oye-Ekiti
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