GAC and the Transition of U S Stewardship

GAC and the Transition of U. S. Stewardship of IANA and Enhancing ICANN Accountability Olga Cavalli – GAC Vice Chair Argentina Representative

GAC today 160 countries + observers Advisor committee Chair: Thomas Schneider – Switzerland Vicechairs: Gema Campillos – Spain Wanawit Akuputra – Tahiland Henri Kassen – Namibia Olga Cavalli - Argentina https: //gacweb. icann. org

Participation in the CCWG on Accountability GAC: chartering organization 5 members in participating in the CCWG on Accountability • North America • Africa • Latin America and Caribbean • Asia • Europe + several members of the GAC as participants (Brazil, UK, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, among others) 3

GAC response to the Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations of the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability • Support for the multistakeholder, bottom-up approach within ICANN • Reiterates its interest in participating in the post-transition phase • Reaffirms its role as an advisory committee to the ICANN Board and within the ICANN multistakeholder environment • Supports Recommendations 1 to 10 and 12. • No consensus on Recommendation 11 and the “carve-out” provision contained in Recommendations 1 and 2. • Expresses its willingness to take part in the envisioned empowered community mechanism as a decisional participant, under conditions to be determined internally. • The GAC has no objection to the transmission of the proposal to the ICANN Board from the 55 ICANN Meeting GAC Communiqué

Concerns Stress Test 18 or Reccomendation 11 Changes in bylaws: - GAC advice must be agreed by consensus - New bylaw text also defines consensus for the GAC: “understood to mean the practice of adopting decisions by general agreement in the absence of any formal objection” - Carve out: Establishes limitations for GAC about its participation in the empowered community Appart from expressing these concerns, there was no objection to the transmission of the proposal to the ICANN Board

Many thanks! Muchas gracias! Questions? Preguntas? Olga Cavalli – GAC Vice Chair Argentina Representative occ@mrecic. gov. ar olgacavalli@gmail. com