<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div><br></div><div>I’m taking the liberty of forwarding here a message Avri sent to another civil society IG list announcing the availability of the ATRT 2 report, the draft of which we discussed at our Constituency Day meetings in Durban and Buenos Aires. I certainly second her views about the importance of the MS review model and think the team has made a real contribution with this effort. Worth reading in your abundant spare time….</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><div><br><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;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[bestbits] Fwd: [] ATRT2 Final Report</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">January 9, 2014 at 11:18:46 PM GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Bits <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>><br></span></div><br><div><br>FYI<br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [discuss] ATRT2 Final Report<br>Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:06:09 -0500<br>From: Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a> <<a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a>><br><br>Hi,<br><br>Every once in a while the question of ICANN's accountability is raised<br>as a issue on this and other lists. The Affirmation of Commitments<br>established a process for an Accountability and Transparency Review Team<br>to be assembled every 3 years to do a review. I have written before of<br>how I believe this is a good mechanism for multistakeholder governance<br>and a model that could be built upon by other Ig organizations.<br><br>Of course a lot depends on how the ICANN Board and Staff take up the<br>recommendations in the Review. At this point, I am optimistic because<br>they have both shown good cooperation during the process of doing the<br>review.<br><br>I was on this year's review team.<br><br><br>Announcement:<br><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-09jan14-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-09jan14-en.htm</a><br><br>Public Comment:<br>http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/atrt2-recommendations-09jan14-en.htm<br><br>ATRT2 Final Report:<br>http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/final-recommendations-31dec13-en.pdf<br><br><br>Translations into the 5 UN languages are currently being done and should<br>be available early in February. I will send the URL's once they are<br>published, but I expect they will be listed in the top URL.<br><br>avri<br><br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> bestbits@lists.bestbits.net.<br>To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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