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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18may10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18may10-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public Comments
Opens Today: Questions to the Community on Accountability and Transparency
within ICANN</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">18
May 2010</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Explanation/Background:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> In the Affirmation of Commitments
(AoC), ICANN commits to maintain and improve robust mechanisms for public
input, accountability and transparency so as to ensure that the outcomes of its
decision-making will reflect the public interest and be accountable to all
stakeholders. The AoC Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) is in
the process of analyzing stakeholder and community input that has been
submitted on these topics prior to the AoC (i.e. comments on Improving
Institutional Confidence, submissions to the NTIA NOI on expiration of the JPA,
etc.). However, the ATRT would also like to understand if there are new inputs
or changes in stakeholder views since the establishment of the AoC.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Initial Questions
from the ATRT</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
can be found here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/community-questions-18may10-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/community-questions-18may10-en.pdf</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Accountability and
Transparency Review Team web space with other reference materials can be found
here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/activities-1-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/activities-1-en.htm</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Process Going
Forward:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the end of this Public
Comment period, the ATRT will review the comments submitted and prepare a
summary analysis of the various submissions. The ATRT will use them as both
benchmarking of post AoC community view and to inform the specific
methodologies and processes the ATRT will be conducting between now and
December 2010.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Deadline and How to
Submit Comments:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The ATRT is opening a 45-day
public comment, from 18th May through 1 July 2010, and invites community
comments and responses to these questions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The formal Public Comment
Forum Box is located here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201007-en.htm#atrt">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201007-en.htm#atrt</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To Submit Comment: <a href="mailto:atrt-questions-2010@icann.org">atrt-questions-2010@icann.org</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To View Comments: <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/atrt-questions-2010/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/atrt-questions-2010/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Staff Responsible: Alice
Jansen, ICANN Assistant, Organizational Review <a href="mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org">alice.jansen@icann.org</a></span></p>
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