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Item 2: Opening Remarks (5 minutes)
2.1 – Overview of the purpose of this special Council meeting (James Bladel)
Item 3: Consent agenda (0 minutes)
Item 42.2 – Explanation of format of response to the CCWG
2.3 – Scope of Council consideration of the substance of the response to the CCWG
Item 3: VOTE ON MOTION – GNSO Endorsement of the Third Draft Proposal from the Cross-Community Working Group on ICANN Accountability(90 minutes)
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In the course of discussions over the IANA stewardship transition, the community had raised concerns about ICANN's accountability, given ICANN’s historical contractual relationship with the United States government. The community discussions indicated that existing ICANN accountability mechanisms do not yet meet some stakeholders’ expectations. As that the U.S. government (through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)) has stressed that it expects community consensus on the transition, this gap between the current situation and stakeholder expectations needed to be addressed. This resulted in the creation of a Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) of which the GNSO is a chartering organization.
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Concurrently, the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) – the community group formed to consolidate the various proposals relating to the IANA stewardship transition submitted by the Internet communities affected by the issue – announced after ICANN54 that it had completed its task. However, before the ICG can send its consolidated proposal to the NTIA via the ICANN Board, it will first have to confirm with the Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship) that its accountability requirements have been met by the Work Stream 1 recommendations from the CCWG-Accountability. In this regard, the CWG-Stewardship had submitted a public comment which, while noting that several of the CCWG-Accountability’s latest recommendations adequately satisfied the CWG-Stewardship’s requirements, nevertheless highlighted a number of points that in its view merited further attention.
In order to meet the CCWG-Accountability’s planned timeline, the GNSO Council had agreed at its December 2015 meeting to form a Sub Team that was to review all the various public comments from the GNSO’s Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies. Here the Council will discuss the status of the work of the Sub Team, and if appropriate vote on whether to adopt the CCWG-Accountability’s recommendations.
43.1 – Summary and update from GNSO Council Sub-Team (James Bladel / Philip Corwin / Keith Drazek / Paul McGrady / Edward Morris)
43.2 – Discussion
43.3 – Presentation of the motion (James Bladel)
43.4 – Vote on motion (voting threshold: simple majority)
43.5 – Next steps
Item 54:Any Other Business (10 Minutes)
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