[council] Improving Institutional Confidence Consultation Enters Second Comment Period

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Improving Institutional Confidence Consultation Enters Second Comment Period

19 September 2008

The Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC) in ICANN consultation has entered 
a second public comment period that will run until Monday 20 October 2008.

In an effort to progress the consultation, an interactive forum has been set up 
that focuses comments and discussion on the individuals points and suggestions 
included in the revised documents. Please visit that forum at 
http://comment.icann.org/content/iic/. Alternatively, we have set up email 
addresses for each of the five main areas. Emails sent to each will appear in a 
specific "emailed comments" folder within this area's folder on the discussion 
forum (see below for more details).

As part of the ongoing consultation process, and following comments received so 
far in the process, the IIC documents initially released in June have been 
revised.

The latest versions of the consultation documents are:

Transition Action Plan
Improving Institutional Confidence in ICANN
A Frequently Asked Questions document is also available.



Changes made to the document Improving Institutional Confidence include:

The inclusion of "Suggestions" into the text at relevant points, reflecting 
comments and advice received so far. They include: the provision of public 
statements of interest; voting restrictions; Board review mechanisms; more 
detailed information on a no-confidence vote in the Board; and more information 
on the question of "legal presences"
Greater information and clarity on the issue of legal presences
Reference added to operational areas of ICANN's work (such as compliance)
The addition of a discussion of operational efficiency measures under the IANA 
procurement agreement with the United States Department of Commerce
Inclusion of text about greater participation within ICANN processes
Other changes:

A number of changes have also been to the Transition Action Plan, including:

A footnote covering the phrase "private sector led", as requested by respondents
An adjustment to the consultation timeline (comment period extended to 20 
October)


Other feedback

During the course of the first comment period, a number of suggested additions 
were made to the IIC consultation areas. The majority of those additions 
concerned ongoing ICANN activities such as: review and reform of existing 
supporting organisations and advisory committees; policy development work on 
IDNs, new gTLDs, DNSSEC and others; and operational matters such as contractual 
compliance. Those matters will continue to be addressed through ICANN's usual 
policy development and public comment processes.



The process from here

The body charged with leading the Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC) 
consultation, the President's Strategy Committee (PSC), will continue to 
receive comment on the key areas outlined in the document at a series of 
regional consultative consultations.

Summaries of those meetings, in additional to comment made in the first comment 
period, and the feedback received during this second comment period, will then 
be used to make changes to the documents in time for a special IIC session at 
ICANN's international public meeting in Cairo on 2-7 November.

Full details of the regional meetings can be found at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/iic/regional-meetings.htm. For those seeking more 
information on the consultation process, including published comment summaries, 
and the IIC documents under discussion, please visit the IIC's dedicated 
webpages at http://icann.org/en/jpa/iic. If you wish to be kept informed of the 
latest developments, please sign up to the dedicated IIC newsletter at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/iic/iic-newsletter.htm.



The public comment forum

Full links to the different discussion areas, including email addresses are 
given below:

Capture [email] | Accountability [email] | Globalization [email] | Finances 
[email] | Security and Stability [email]



Background:

More than two years ago, the President's Strategy Committee (PSC) commenced a 
series of consultations on how to strengthen and complete the ICANN 
multi-stakeholder model. In addition, the recent Midterm Review of the Joint 
Project Agreement (JPA) between the United States Department of Commerce and 
ICANN produced useful comments about ICANN's performance and future. Most 
commentators in that consultation believe ICANN has made significant progress, 
but that some key areas need to be improved in order to complete the transition 
to an agreed model of multi-stakeholder coordination of the Internet's unique 
identifiers.

The PSC has developed three papers that outline those key areas and possible 
responses to address them. The PSC wants to be clear - all these suggestions 
are for discussion. They are the work of the Committee alone. They are not 
fixed positions. But they are also positions that are the result of long-term 
work over two years by the PSC that also incorporate recent input from the 
community.

The PSC has provided the following three documents to launch a discussion with 
the community PSC about how to complete the transition of the organization 
after the conclusion of the Joint Project Agreement.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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