ICANN CEO Urges Stakeholders Forward, as New Accountability Draft Proposal Goes Live
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé urged stakeholders to press on with work on the planned Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition, citing the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability’s posting Monday of the latest draft of its proposed set of…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
changes to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms. The CCWG-Accountability draft proposal included expected consensus language (see 1511270048) on handling advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee after the IANA transition that will allow the ICANN board to reject any GAC consensus advice via a two-thirds majority board vote, provided the board then works with GAC to find a mutually agreeable solution. Final submission of ICANN’s IANA transition plan to NTIA is still months away but the time before then “will be critical to the success of the multistakeholder proposals,” Chehadé said in a Monday blog post. “Once again, I ask you to finish out the last few steps of this journey with as much passion, dedication and hard work as you've put in to it.”