ICANN Accountability Working Group Grappling With GAC Advice Recommendation
The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN’s Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) is considering how to revise its draft recommendation on how the ICANN board should handle advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee after the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition but expects…
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to finalize revisions to several other recommendations this week, the working group’s leaders said Tuesday. CCWG-Accountability’s recommendation to allow the ICANN board to reject GAC advice on a two-thirds majority vote is one of several included in the working group’s draft proposal for changing ICANN’s accountability mechanisms. The draft GAC recommendation has been criticized by stakeholder groups, including the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (see 1601260067). CCWG-Accountability is considering a possible compromise that would raise the ICANN board’s threshold for rejecting GAC advice to only a 60 percent majority, though it’s unclear how much support that proposal has among the working group’s members, an ICANN observer told us. CCWG-Accountability believes it will be able to distribute a supplemental draft of its proposal to all ICANN chartering organizations quickly enough to receive clearance from those organizations during ICANN's upcoming meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, working group leaders said in a blog post. “Keeping in mind the working methods for the various Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, we ask that this be [taken] into accountas the Chartering Organizations plan their discussions and schedules leading into and during” ICANN’s Marrakech meeting, CCWG-Accountability leaders said. “We encourage any Chartering Organizations that can deliberate and/or approve the Work Stream 1 Recommendations prior to Marrakech to do so.”