[governance] Fixing an ICANN problem

[Ray Plzak]

Perhaps a closer look at the way the RIR policy fora work would be a good thing to do. All of them have active email lists and well attended policy meetings (which by the way are not at ICANN meetings).

Ray (speaking for myself)

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 08:38
To: Governance List
Subject: [governance] Fixing an ICANN problem

ICANN recently published a study of constituency participation in working group activities -- see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg07806.html

The attendance rosters paint a very sad picture -- two constituencies in particular (the ISPs and the NCUC) had no member participation whatsoever in several working groups:

Registration Abuse Policies WG
Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-A
Inter-Registrar Transfers WG-B
Community Communications Coordination WG

These two constituencies also had very limited attendance in other working groups:

Policy Development Process WG
Post Expiry Domain Name Recovery WG

Not listed in this report was participation data for some of the newer working groups such as the Registrar Accreditation Amendments WG and the Registrant Rights WG that similarly have seen no active participation by members of these two constituencies.

When some constituencies fail to participate at the working group level it is almost inevitable that whatever recommendations emerge will be skewed as a result of imbalanced input -- clearly this is not a healthy situation.

On this list are many veterans of the ICANN process.  What suggestions might you offer to improve this overall situation?



      

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