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Regarding Recommendation #6 - The SSAC Charter be amended to exclude involvement with Recommendation or review of internal ICANN operations except as specifically directed by the Board.

  • To: "ssac-review-2009@xxxxxxxxx" <ssac-review-2009@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Regarding Recommendation #6 - The SSAC Charter be amended to exclude involvement with Recommendation or review of internal ICANN operations except as specifically directed by the Board.
  • From: John Curran <jcurran@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:26:57 -0400

To the SSAC Review Team -

The very first sentence of ICANN's Bylaws highlights the importance of  
the SSAC to ICANN's overall success:

  -  "The mission of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and  
Numbers (“ICANN”) is to coordinate, at the overall level, the global  
Internet's systems of unique identifiers, and in particular to ensure  
the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier  
systems."

and further, per Article III, Transparency:

   - "ICANN and its constituent bodies shall operate to the maximum  
extent feasible in an open and transparent manner ..."

It should be made clear that ICANN is not a traditional corporate  
entity which provides service or product to a constituency and  
otherwise governs its internal operations as it sees fit.  In fact,  
quite to the contrary, ICANN has an obligation to operate in the  
manner which is open to the *maximum extent feasible", and this duty  
is most important when applied to the primary mission of the  
organization of ensuring the stable and secure operation of the  
Internet's identifier systems."

The SSAC position on recommendation #6 was correct, in that the SSAC  
needs the ability to review internal operations which relate to  
operation of the Internet's identifier systems, and this may be  
achieved by a charter which allows such access, or alternatively by  
having a charter which provides for review of significant changes to  
ICANN's operations as determined by ICANN Mgmt and staff.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)





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