Comments on CCWG-Accountability

["Ilay Yilmaz (ELIG)" <ilay.yilmaz@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Sir/Madam,

By way of introduction, I am one of the partners at ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law; a 
leading law firm with 60 lawyers in Istanbul, Turkey. As per David Olive's 
request, i.e. ICANN Vice President of Policy Development in Turkey, we submit 
our comments on CCWG-Accountability to you.

It appears that an independent, multi-stakeholder management structure will be 
rewarding for ICANN accountability. We believe that the plan drawn therein 
would also be helpful for internet governance, by way of providing transparent 
accountability mechanisms for ICANN.

As you already know, legislative procedures and decision making procedures are 
hardly keeping up with the technological developments. In CCWG's proposal, it 
appears that the multi-stakeholder structured management will have a word in 
ICANN bylaws. Therefore, the report may also include a detailed information on 
legislative procedures for the amendment and enacting of ICANN by-laws, in 
order to make the decision making process become more transparent. For example, 
there is a distinction between "fundamental bylaws" and secondary bylaws of 
ICANN and the amendment/enactment procedures of fundamental bylaws appear to be 
more difficult than the procedures to amend/enact secondary bylaws (Please 
refer to page 34 of the report at the URL address 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ccwg-draft-2-proposal-work-stream-1-recs-03aug15-en.pdf).
 As far as we can see from the report, public comment participants may also 
conceive of other contingencies and risks beyond the stress tests identified by 
the report. In other words, a multi-stakeholder community would be extremely 
helpful. However, the deadlocks of the legislative procedures during the 
amendment/enactment of bylaws, may also be pointed out as a stress test. We 
believe that it would be helpful to also explain the details of the legislation 
procedures in case of a deadlock during the amendment/enactment of a bylaw.

We hope our foregoing comments enrich the process and proposal.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Av. İlay Yılmaz
Partner
ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law
Çitlenbik Sokak, No:12
Yıldız Mahallesi 34349
Beşiktaş, İstanbul
Tel : + 90 212 327 17 24
Faks: + 90 212 327 17 25
www.elig.com<http://www.elig.com/>

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