Accountability Contribution from InternetNZ (.nz ccTLD)

[Jordan Carter <jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Fadi and Steve,

This email is our formal submission in response to ICANN's call for comments on 
ICANN accountability, as published on 6 May 2014.

As is the case with most other parts of the ICANN community, we focused a great 
deal of attention and effort in dealing with the IANA Transition consultation 
which completed on 8 May. 

We have not had time within the 21-day comment period to prepare a meaningful 
contribution, and we know that other ccTLDs and other ICANN community 
participants are in a similar position.

For ICANN, these processes are clearly front of mind and a priority. For the 
rest of us, they come on top of business as usual.

Most of us do not have significant staff and financial resources to commit to 
this process.

Multiple streams of consultation, and very short comment periods, do not permit 
the opportunity for meaningful involvement on these very important issues for 
organisations that have to focus on "the day job", as well as taking an 
interest in the global framework within which the DNS operates.

The consequence of this reality has to be a more deliberate and considered 
pace. 

We urge you to extend the comment period on this accountability consultation by 
at least another two weeks, and to undertake to us and to the whole community 
that your future management of the wide range of discussions involved with 
ending US Government stewardship of the DNS can proceed in a truly bottom-up, 
multistakeholder fashion.

It simply is not realistic to expect community participants to be able to focus 
on these issues with the degree of focus, intensity and resource that ICANN 
itself can deploy.

Your response, as individuals and as representatives of ICANN, to this request 
for a more considered pace and more time for comment on Accountability matters 
will tell us much of what we need to know about whether the rhetoric of 
accountability, transparency and inclusion is going to be matched by reality.

We believe you can make these processes demonstrate ICANN's fitness to be the 
steward of the DNS. We urge you to take the opportunity to do so.

With many thanks for your consideration,

InternetNZ


-- 
Jordan Carter

Chief Executive 
InternetNZ

04 495 2118 (office) | +64 21 442 649 (mob)
jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Skype: jordancarter

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