<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 13, 2010 10:12:26 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">liaison6c <<a href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org">liaison6c@gnso.icann.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[liaison6c] AoC Accountability and Transparency Review: Independent Expert - Request for Proposals</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-02jun10-en.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-02jun10-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="title" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">AoC Accountability and Transparency Review: Independent Expert – Request for Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="docdate" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Updated 12 June 2010<br>11 June 2010<br>2 June 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="subtitle" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Deadline extended to: 12 June 2010 – 23.59 UTC</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" 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 reflect the public interest and are accountable to all stakeholders. To this end, the AoC prescribes the setting-up of a Review Team as to evaluate ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency – this led to the creation of the first ATRT in March 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">In its examination of ICANN’s activities, the first ATRT recently published<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201007-en.htm#atrt" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">Questions to the Community for Public Comment</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">As part of its review effort, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/activities-1-en.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">AoC Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT)</span></a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>now issues a</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/rpf-atrt-02jun10-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">Request for Proposals (RfP)</span></a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[PDF, 49 KB] in order to appoint an independent expert.</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The purpose of this assignment is to perform a n assessment of ICANN decision-making to identify whether ICANN’s processes and procedures are designed and executed in a manner that ensures its AoC commitments.</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Interested parties</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are invited to provide relevant background material, written methodology for execution of this task, views on the tentative timeline enclosed in the RfP, a proposed budget, resumes, references and financial information by<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">June 12, 2010 – 23.59 UTC to Alice E. Jansen, ICANN, Assistant, Organizational Reviews at</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">alice.jansen@icann.org</span></a></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Interested parties, please be advised that the RT has addressed a set of questions received in response to the RfP:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; "><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/rfp-q-and-a-11jun10-en.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; ">RfP Questions and Answers</span></a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[PDF, 64 KB].</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Based on review of the June 12, 2010 submissions, parties may be invited to present their proposals to perform this study to the ATRT during its meeting on June 18-19, 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">The ATRT intends to notify candidates on Monday, 14 June 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red; ">Candidates selected to make presentations to the ATRT will be notified of the date and time of their presentation and will present on one of the two dates indicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://gnso.icann.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://gnso.icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>