Thanks to those BC members who have posted their individual contributions regarding AART and also the Applicant Guidebook. That is very helpful to your colleagues, and a very useful courtesy within the BC. Thanks, Konstantine, for this posting.

By now, all should have seen the USG letter to the Board regarding concerns about adherence to the AoC. I went to the ICANN website and looked at what ICANN says they are doing to implement each element. In most cases, they cite work at the GNSO council, PDPs, etc.

As many of you know, I am very concerned that the failure to deliver on the economic report leaves out the significant externalities impact -- cost and other -- to the existing large trademark/portfolio holder where there are IP rights involved in a domain name through affiliation with a trademark.

But, the USG letter is telling for other reasons, and that is that the government who negotiated it and who is in fact on the AART, is expressing a clear sense that ICANN is not delivering -- within year one, on the very commitments that are needed to keep ICANN out of the clutches of various other entities.

I am also disturbed to see that once again, staff [and presumably, with the agreement of Rod] have eliminated the commitment to 'bottom up, consensus based, private sector led organization. This has been an ongoing struggle since I was on the President's Strategy Committee [PSC] that formulated many of the recommendations in the AoC. That phrasing is very important to business, and especially as we strive to help ICANN board come to a better approach to collaborating with the GAC in a constructive dialogue, without changing the role or authority of the governments within ICANN.

This will be a stressing week, and an important one.

If you cannot be in Columbia in person, we hope to see you online.

Regards

Marilyn Cade
BC Chair

From: kkladouras@ote.gr
To: bc-gnso@icann.org
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:16:34 +0200
Subject: [bc-gnso] ETNO input on draft ATRT recommendations

Dear BC colleagues,

For your information, please find attached the ETNO response to the public consultation on the draft proposed recommendations of the Review Team on Accountability and Transparency.

Best regards,

Konstantin

Konstantin KLADOURAS

Chairman ETNO IGV-WG

OTE S.A.

Directorate General for Regulatory Affairs

99 Kifissias Ave., GR-151 24 Maroussi GREECE

Tel: +30 210 611 8319

Mob: +30 697 33 44 006

e-mail: kkladouras@ote.gr