ICANN Accountability Consensus at Dublin Meeting 'Important Step,' USCIB Says
The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability's (CCWG-Accountability) consensus at ICANN's Dublin meeting last week on several important provisions in its proposed set of changes to ICANN's accountability mechanisms “marked an important step in developing a mechanism that…
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will effectively empower business and other stakeholders to hold ICANN accountable,” said U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) Vice President-Information and Communications Technology Policy Barbara Wanner in a news release Monday. “We have repeatedly said that accountability mechanisms must be in place before the IANA transition takes place.” CCWG-Accountability agreed in part to proceed with a sole designator model as its mechanism for enforcing proposed new ICANN community powers (see 1510220053). “What I think we can take away from this week is the wonderful and amazing way in which we have brought together in the same room people from different [stakeholder] groups to work in a collaborative manner -- and that makes a difference and brings progress,” said CCWG-Accountability co-Chairman Mathieu Weill in the USCIB news release.