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Operating Standards: Guiding ICANN’s Specific Reviews

2019 年 07 月 8 日
作者：
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.

On 23 June 2019, the ICANN Board adopted the Operating Standards for Specific Reviews [PDF, 647 KB] at ICANN65 in Marrakech. This is a significant contribution to improving review effectiveness at ICANN.

The Operating Standards are mandated by ICANN's Bylaws and guide how current and future ICANN Specific Reviews are conducted. Adhering to these Operating Standards will further help the Specific Review teams to conduct their work in a transparent, consistent, and efficient manner, thus helping to achieve the intended benefit and value from Specific Review processes.

Background

Specific Reviews are led by community review teams. They are tasked with assessing ICANN's performance in key areas to generate cost-efficient recommendations based on their findings. The Operating Standards address in a review, among other things, scope setting, roles and responsibilities, team working methods, outputs, dispute resolution, and a mechanism for the community to initiate updates to the document.

The development of the Operating Standards has been a truly collaborative effort between the ICANN organization ("ICANN org"), the ICANN Board, and the ICANN community, beginning with a brainstorming exercise in November 2016 at ICANN57. Since then, members of the community have contributed to the drafting process and the content of the Operating Standards by providing their feedback through two public comment opportunities, four public sessions at ICANN meetings, and five webinars. Thank you all for your time and thoughtful contributions.

Next Steps

Other efforts towards improving review effectiveness are continuing. The ICANN org and Board is engaged in discussions with the community on where improvements can be made to prioritizing, budgeting and implementing Specific Review recommendations.

Similarly, the community has indicated that Organizational Reviews would benefit from streamlining. The Board has agreed with this assessment now that the second round of Organizational Reviews is nearly complete. In response, the ICANN org has drafted a process proposal for streamlining Organizational Reviews, which is available for public comment until 15 July 2019. Once the streamlining criteria for Organizational Reviews is agreed upon, the Board will work with the ICANN community, assisted by ICANN org, to improve Organizational Reviews.

I encourage you to continue to contribute your valuable knowledge and expertise to these important efforts.

Authors

Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy
Theresa Swinehart

Theresa Swinehart

SVP, Global Domains & Strategy

Theresa Swinehart is the Senior Vice President of Global Domains and Strategy. In this role, she works with the community, contracted parties, stakeholders, and policymakers to ensure broad and inclusive engagement, consensus-based policymaking through ICANN’s multistakeholder model, and effective, accountable policy implementation. Her responsibilities include policy implementation, review operation, and cross-functional strategic initiatives such as ICANN’s compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. An expert in global Internet governance, Theresa also serves as co-deputy to the President and CEO. Her extensive industry experience, including nearly 20 years as a key contributor to ICANN’s growth and development, gives her a valuable perspective on how ICANN organization can work efficiently and collaboratively to better serve the global Internet community.

Theresa rejoined ICANN after three years as Executive Director of Global Internet Policy at Verizon Communications, where she specialized in emerging issues as well as stakeholder and policy engagement. Prior to this, she served as ICANN’s Vice President of Global and Strategic Partnerships, leading a team responsible for partnership reform, global engagement and outreach, and the participation in international forums. Before ICANN, Theresa was Director of Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for such issues as Internet service provider liability, data protection, and participation in Internet-related forums, including the formation of ICANN. 

Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree in international studies from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a juris doctorate from American University. She served on the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees and Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. Theresa began her career in international human rights. She is fluent in German and is conversant in French.