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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Thanks for the information, Milton. I must confess I've not been following this particular implementation process closely - does anyone know how the panel was solicited, shortlisted and selected? If not, may I suggest that our SG leaders ask, particularly given that the composition of the three-person panel does not include any women or minorities?</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Cheers</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Mary</font><br><br><font face="Lucida Grande" STYLE="font-size: 12pt"><br>Mary W S Wong
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<BR>Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
<BR>Chair, Graduate IP Programs
<BR>UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHOOL OF LAW
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<BR>Email: mary.wong@law.unh.edu
<BR>Phone: 1-603-513-5143
<BR>Webpage: <a href="http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
">http://www.law.unh.edu/marywong/index.php
</a><BR>Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=437584">http://ssrn.com/author=437584</a>
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[NCSG-Discuss] FW: ICANN Launches Accountability Structures Expert Panel, Seeks Community Input </p>
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<font color="#1F497D"><span style="color: #1F497D">None of these "experts" knows a thing about Internet governance, ICANN's history, ICANN or the political dimension of accountability. This is a typical ICANN approach to a sensitive issue, hand-pick a bunch of on-paper "experts" through who-knows-what kind of a vetting process who will do a whitewash report that is guaranteed not to rock the boat<o style="color: #1F497D" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="color: #1F497D"></span></font> </p>
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<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-11sep12-en.htm"><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"12.0pt" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Arial,sans-serif"'><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif" lang="FR">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-11sep12-en.htm</span></SPAN></a><SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"12.0pt" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Arial,sans-serif"'><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif" lang="FR"><o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></SPAN> </p>
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<SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"12.0pt" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Arial,sans-serif"'><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt">ICANN Launches Accountability Structures Expert Panel, Seeks Community Input<o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></SPAN> </h1>
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<SPAN STYLE='FONT-SIZE:"12.0pt" ;FONT-FAMILY:"Arial,sans-serif"'><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt">11 September 2012</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt"><o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></SPAN> </p>
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">In fulfillment of ATRT Recommendations 23 and 25, calling for a review of ICANN's Accountability Structures, ICANN has identified an international panel of experts to serve on the Accountability Structures Expert Panel (ASEP). Biographies of the experts are available at </span><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/accountability/asep"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/accountability/asep</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">.<o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></font> </p>
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The ASEP is interested in hearing from the ICANN community regarding your thoughts on ICANN's accountability structures, particularly the Reconsideration process and the Independent Review process, and whether they can or should be modified. Your comments and inputs can be submitted to </span><a href="mailto:ASEP@ICANN.org"><span lang="EN-US">ASEP@ICANN.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> and comments can be viewed at </span><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/asep/"><span lang="EN-US">http://forum.icann.org/lists/asep/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">. Please provide your input by 1 October 2012.<o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></font> </p>
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The ASEP will be posting updates regarding its work, with a detailed project plan expected by mid-September. All information regarding the ASEP will be accessible from the ASEP page at </span><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/accountability/asep"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/accountability/asep</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">.<o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"></span></font>
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