[governance] Comments on Enhancing ICANN Accountability

[parminder]

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?

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...

parminder





On Wednesday 23 July 2014 12:12 PM, Gideon wrote:
> Here is an interesting input regarding the improvement of ICANN's 
> accountability mechanisms by Robin Gross.
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-enhancing-accountability-06may14/pdfAXyqLQLLln.pdf
>
> Regards
> Gideon Rop
> DotConnectAfrica

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