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Westlake Consulting Limited has also taken the task of governance review for ‘.au’ internet domain belonging to Australia.
Westlake Consulting Limited has also taken the task of governance review for ‘.au’ internet domain belonging to Australia.
==Review of Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) by Westlake Consulting==
===Findings===
* Some findings are given below:
* RSSAC is issue-based and highly reactive, but it was supposed to give advice to the ICANN Board.
* Regular Communication between the ICANN Board and RSSAC is not good.
* Root Server Operators dominate over RSSAC and are independent of ICANN. Their focus is mainly operation and due to this very few times RSSAC has given advice to the ICANN Board.
* The meeting processes and committee of RSSAC is incomplete and poor. They are also not updating their website at regular intervals.
* Succession and Appointment Process for Chair Person and Committee is ill-defined.
* RSSAC’s members do not attend ICANN meetings regularly and thereby disconnecting themselves from other ICANN members. Its meetings are held at IETF i.e. Internet Engineering Task Force and as result there are very few and infact no interactions between ICANN entities and RSSAC.
===Options===
The review team of Westlake Consulting has identified certain option for RSSAC. They are:
* No change.
* Set its focus again and give support through ICANN resources.
* Disband RSSAC or merge its functioning with SSAC or like.
* Convert RSSAC into an organization supported by ICANN.
* Relaunch it and make it accountable to ICANN and Root Server Operators.
===Recommendations===
# RSSAC should be relaunched and this time it should be a Joint Strategy Group, accountable to ICANN and Root Server Operators.
# RSSAC’s role should be to give advice to Root Server Operators, Internet Community and the ICANN about the better way to move ahead. It should monitor, analyse and assess the changes proposed and provide timely advice on the risks, desirability and implications of such changes. It should also provide a mean of connection between ICANN, Internet Community and Root Server Operators.
# RSSAC should have initially 9 members, 4 Root Server Operators, 1 IANA appointed and 4 ICANN Board appointed. The appointed members must have the technical knowledge about the Root Server System.
# Chair of RSSAC should be appointed from one of its members and it should limit the appointment term to two years and further limiting it three consecutive terms only.
# RSSAC should attend all ICANN meetings. RSSAC’s sessions should be public and others can participate in it except for some closed sessions when only members could attend. It should invite ICANN Board members and Root Server Operators and must be granted speaking rights.
# ICANN should nominate two staff members who will support RSSAC, one technical fellow, who will research and draft the reports on RSSAC behalf and other Administrative support, whose role will be to provide administrative role for effective operation.
# ICANN should fund accommodation and travel for the members of RSSAC for attending ICANN meetings.
==Review of At-Large Advisory Committee by Westlake Consulting==
==Conclusion Drawn==
The Review Team of Westlake Consulting believes that ICANN should allow ALAC to continue with its efforts and contribute to the policy making process of ICANN. ALAC 1.0 has progressed a lot in recent months. ICANN must make its activities relevant to the internet user’s needs all over the world. ALAC has to make sure that ICANN Community finds it to be an important part of ICANN Structure.
==References==
==References==