Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Difference between revisions
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Faced with a number of issues to address, the WS1 team divided into several work groups: legal, [[IRP]] implementation oversight, community empowerment, review & redress, emerging issues, human rights, and stress testing. Each group addressed facets of the identified work areas for the CCWG-Accountability project as a whole. | Faced with a number of issues to address, the WS1 team divided into several work groups: legal, [[IRP]] implementation oversight, community empowerment, review & redress, emerging issues, human rights, and stress testing. Each group addressed facets of the identified work areas for the CCWG-Accountability project as a whole. | ||
==Drafts and Public Comments== | ==WS 1 Drafts and Public Comments== | ||
The first draft of the WS 1 Report was published for public comment in May 2015.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ccwg-accountability-draft-proposal-2015-05-04-en ICANN.org Archive - Public Comment Proceeding, CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal], May 4 - June 29, 2015</ref> The draft proposal contained the following principal recommendations: | |||
* Revise the Mission, Core Values, and Commitments sections of the Bylaws; | |||
* Designate certain Bylaws as "Fundamental" and require a 75% supermajority to change those Bylaws; | |||
* Improvements the Independent Review Panel process; | |||
* Improvements to the reconsideration process; | |||
* Create a mechanism to empower the ICANN community, and imbue the community with the power to: | |||
** reconsider/reject budget or strategy/operating plans; | |||
** reconsider/reject changes to non-Fundamental Bylaws; | |||
** approve changes to Fundamental Bylaws; | |||
** recall individual ICANN directors; and | |||
** recall the entire ICANN Board; | |||
* Incorporate the commitments contained in the [[Affirmation of Commitments]] into the ICANN Bylaws; and | |||
* Revise the Bylaws to ameliorate problems discovered via stress testing (specifically, require the Board to respond to Advisory Committee advice, and to consult with the GAC and find mutually acceptable solutions for consensus-based GAC advice).<ref name="ws1draft1">[https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/49348770/CCWG-Draft-Proposal-clean.pdf CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1 Workspace - Draft Proposal 1], May 4, 2015</ref> The draft proposal sought responses to specific aspects of the proposal, as well as general comments and feedback regarding the direction of the working group's efforts and work product to date.<ref name="ws1draft1" /> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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