RE: [ga] independent review and information disclosure policies posted

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As someone who writes reports for local and national government for a living
(in part anyway) this review looks pretty independent to me.  In looking at
One World Trust web site they would seem to have the credentials to
undertake such a task.

But to get back to the nitty gritty.  This report was published in March
2007.  If you read the executive summary (I haven't read the full report
yet) you can see that there are several recommendations.  It will take a
considerable amount of time to put policies and structures in place in order
to adopt these recommendations.  Not to mention the administrative time to
collate and analyse the public comment before any of this can be even
started.

In your email stating that One World Trust did not ask your opinion.  Why
would they?  That is a different process and would require market research
to get a statistically valid viewpoint.  If they only ask those who have
complained about lack of transparency the report would be completely biased.
WRT contat details for the organization conducting the review, it is not
usual to supply contact details for the organization doing the review - In
this case they would be inundated with angry emails methinks.

To expect ICANN to deliver solutions within 3 months of the report being
published is completely unrealistic.  What would be better is to, perhaps,
help ICANN in devising those solutions.  For instance, you could ask ICANN
to introduce a timescale for implementing the changes recommended by the
report. A first stage is to ask ICANN to indicate which aspects of the
Action Plan they intend to adopt and if they intend to adopt them in any
order of priority.  That will at least give you some idea as to when things
will start happening.  Then you could start on the list of how these actions
can best be devised/designed and implemented.

Best regards

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edward Hasbrouck
> Sent: 28 June 2007 22:13
> To: Karl Auerbach
> Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ga] independent review and information 
> disclosure policies posted
> 
> I should add that the status of the Ombudsman is similar to 
> that of independent review:  the Bylaws specifically require 
> the Ombudsman to be appointed by the Board, but there has 
> never been a publicly-disclosed Board resolution to appoint 
> an Ombudsman.  ICANN simply issued a press release that an 
> Ombudsman had been appointed. By whom or how was not 
> specified.  The announced term of the initial "appointment" 
> has expired, and there has been no publicly-disclosed Board 
> decision to renew or extend
> it:
> 
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/transparency-2007/msg00003.html
> 
> So there is neither a properly-appointed Ombudsman nor a 
> properly designated IRP or independent review procedures.
> 
> And the Reconsideration Committee has acted in ways forbidden by the
> Bylaws:
> 
> http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001196.html
> 
> *None* of the so-called accountability mechanisms in th 
> Bylaws have actually been propoerly implemented.
> 
> For more detail, see:
> 
> http://hasbrouck.org/icann
> 
> 
> 
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