Accountability and Transparency - Draft Management Operating Principles

ICANN's Accountability and Transparency Frameworks and Principles were approved by the Board on 15 February 2008.

The full frameworks and principles are also available in PDF format [PDF, 425 KB]:
http://www.icann.org/en/transparency/acct-trans-frameworks-principles-10jan08.pdf

Contents

• Overview
• Accountability in the Public Sphere
• Legal and Corporate accountability
• Accountability to the participating community

Archived Draft Management Operating Principles

• 17 Oct 2007: Accountability and Transparency Frameworks and Principles for Consultation [PDF, 180 KB] 中文 [PDF, 408 KB] العربية [PDF, 360 KB] Русский [PDF, 292 KB]
• 23 Jun 2007: Draft Management Operating Principles [PDF, 160 KB] | Español [PDF, 1,250 KB] | لعربية [PDF, 308 KB]

Reports

• One World Trust Report
• Independent Review of ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency — Structures and Practices 2005–2006 [PDF, 358 KB]
• Terms of Reference: Independent Review of ICANN's Accountability and Transparency 2005–2006

Announcements

• Possible ‘Next Steps’ in Dispute Resolution, 11 January 2008
• Accountability and Transparency Document Released, 10 January 2008
• ICANN Posts Next Draft of Accountability and Transparency Frameworks and Principles for Consultation, 17 October 2007
• ICANN Posts Draft Management Operating Principles for Community Consultation 23 June 2007
• ICANN Response to One World Trust Review of ICANN's Accountability and Transparency — Structures and Practices and Update on Management Operating Principles Development Consultation 7 June 2007
• Independent Review of ICANN's Accountability and Transparency 29 March 2007
• Summary of Input on Transparency and Accountability Management Operating Principles 26 January 2007
• ICANN Posts Summary of Comments on Management Operating Principles 29 November 2006
• ICANN Seeks Community Input on the Development of Transparency and Accountability Management Operating Principles 16 October 2006

At-Large

• At-Large Advisory Committee
  • Minutes and Meetings
• Regional At-Large Organisations
  • African RALO
  • Asia Australia and the Pacific Islands RALO
  • European RALO
  • Latin America and the Caribbean Islands RALO
  • North American RALO
• Current Policy Issues
• Internationalised Domain Names
• Registrant/Registrar Relations
• IPv4 to IPv6 Transition
• Domain Tasting
• New GTLDs

ccNSO

• Current Policy Issues
• IDN Working Group
• IDNC WG
  • Time table for the possible introduction of IDN ccTLDs
• ccNSO IANA WG
  • ccNSO IANA WG paper on DNSSEC [PDF, 353 KB]
• Working Group on Participation
  • Survey on ccNSO Participation [PDF, 17 KB]
• ccNSO Council Minutes
• Membership Applications

Compliance

• Current Compliance Activities
• Overview of Compliance Function
• How to Get Help When You Have a Problem with Your Registrar

GAC

• Operating Principles [DOC, 77 KB]
• Principles and Guidelines for the Delegation and Administration of Country Code Top Level Domains [RTF, 56 KB]
• Principles Regarding New gTLDs [PDF, 172 KB]
• Principles Regarding WHOIS Services [PDF, 80 KB]
• Bylaw Provisions
• 2007 Work Plan [PDF, 20 KB]

IANA

• http://www.iana.org/

Registrar Tasks

• Registrar Accrediation Process [PDF, 16 KB]
• Registrar Accreditation Agreement Renewal Process [PDF, 16 KB]
• Assignment Process [PDF, 16 KB]
• Adding a gTLD Appendix [PDF, 12 KB]
• ICANN Procedure for Handling Conflicts with Privacy Law
• De-Accredited Registrar Transition Procedure [PDF, 121 KB]