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<font face="Verdana">The report very well describes the problems
with ICANN's accountability with respect to human rights, which is
basically ICANN's political accountability. However, I dont see
any clear recommendations in this docuemnt about how to ensure
such accountability. As rightly pointed out, it cannot be done
though processes like taking in public comments or through experts
based mechanisms. How then?<br>
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This is the key question in the current IANA transition/ ICANN
accountability process, these two aspects of a single issue having
been artificially, and one must say, cleverly, separated. IANA
authority was used by the US gov as *the* lever to ensure
political accountability of ICANN to itself. Suddenly, IANA task
has begun to be described by the US gov as merely a clerical one.
And ICANN accountability being entirely unrelated to it. Funny.
But again there seems not much desire around to call the bluff...<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 23 July 2014 12:12 PM,
Gideon wrote:<br>
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is
an interesting input regarding the improvement of ICANN's
accountability
mechanisms by Robin Gross.<br>
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href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06may14/pdfAXyqLQLLln.pdf">http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06may14/pdfAXyqLQLLln.pdf</a><br>
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Rop<br>
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