Dear BC Members As BC Chair, I am forwarding this information to you to call it to your attention but noting that this is intended for your individual participation as a concerned and involved stakeholder in ICANN. The Accountability and Transparency Review Team is the first of four such review processes identified and required in the Affirmation of Commitments between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce. As we all know, the business community, including many members of the Business Constituency were actively engaged in providing comments into the ICANN President's Strategy Committee (PSC) which did much of the preliminary work that led to the AoC. BC members individually filed comments and were actively engaged in various initiatives, including also a public process initiated by the US DoC /NTIA in a public comment process (NOI) related to accountability of ICANN to its stakeholders. More recently, the BC participated with its sister constituencies [IPC and ISPCP] in a process to nominate and support a nomee from the Commercial Stakeholder's Group (CSG) into the candidates which would then be eligible for 'selection' by the Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the GAC as participants in the A&T RT. This Review team has been appointed, and the nominee that the CSG agreed upon -- Olivier Muron, France Telecom -- is a part of the Review team. The A&T RT has decided to make its deliberations very open to the community. You will find agendas, Preliminary Reports and Minutes posted on the web site posted below. Also, you will find information about how to listen into the public parts of the meeting. Best Regards Marilyn CadeBC Chair ======================================================================== FYI http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01may10-en.htm Accountability and Transparency Review Team - Audio Streaming of F2F Meeting (5-6 May 2010) 1 May 2010 The first F2F meeting of the Affirmation mandated Accountability and Transparency Review Team is to be held in Marina Del Rey on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 and Thursday, 6 May 2010 – 16.00 UTC – 01.00 UTC. An audio-streaming will be provided for the public parts of the meeting. The link to the Adobe Connect room is as follows: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/affirmation/ Please consult the agenda of this forthcoming session. Recording will be posted shortly after the meeting ends.