Marilyn Cade, Chair of BC Appreciate that you have ensured the continuation of the Public Forum, and also note with appreciation that you share our awareness that ICANN nas many critical issues and activites. In general, the BC is pleased with the focused attention on the new gTLDs in the specialized public forum on M and W, and in the open approach taken in the Workign sessions between the Board and GAC, but we also are very appreciative of this Public Forum to address the rest of the critical breadth of other issues and topics. The AoC was welcomed by the BC, and we welcomed the Review Team approach established for the four topical areas. We have previously thanked the ATRT members for their hard work. It is very clear that the staff have also decided a significant amount of work to the ongoing fulfillment of how the implementation is going. The BC applauds the work of the ATRT and looks forward to the implementation of the recommendations, as committed by the Board. We have not focused in on the substantive detail of the ATRT recommendations with comments, but have a very few thoughts; We consider the AoC of critical importance to ICANN’s success. It would b eard to overemphasize how important this agreement was upon tis signing, and continues to be as a commitment that was made and needs to be fulfilled. We took note of a statement during Monday’s session and wish to reinforce our views on ensuring all necessary resources. In his opening remarks, the CEO said that fulfilling ICANN's Affirmation responsibilities was "...subject to receiving appropriate resources." The BC advises the Board and the community that we believe that the ATRT recommendations are expected by the community to be fully implemented. If there are budget or resource constraints that are putting the recommendations at risk, that should be identified immediately, and shared with the Community. In its report, the ATRT asks the Board to provide a status report on all the recommendations at the March 2011 ICANN meeting in San Francisco. The Board should also provide a more formal report at the June 2011 ICANN meeting in Amman detailing: 1) Which recommendation(s) have been fully implemented; 2) The status and schedule for implementing the remaining recommendations; and 3) The recommendations which the Board has concluded it cannot implement including a detailed explanation as to why the recommendation(s) cannot be implemented. We apologize for not noting this issue earlier, but it is of some concern to us that item 3 seems to indicate that the Board can decide that recommednations cannot be implemented and after explaining why, no further initiative would be undertaken to find a way to implement the recommendation. It may be appropriate not to act on a recommendation if it is indeed not possible to implement; on the other hand, the community may believe that with adjustment, a recommendation could be met. Since the Report in June is actually the conclusion of the ATRT process, this would indicate that it would be important to put the Discussions on this topic up very early in the Singapore agenda and to make sure that the more formal report is provided to the community well before the Singapore meeting. This has been a busy time for ICANN since Cartegena, but the ATRT recommendations are critical to ICANN’s fulfilling the AoC itself. We also supported the ATRT request that the Board provide a status report on all the recommendations at the March 2011 ICANN meeting in San Francisco. We have not been able to identify the promised Status Report on all the Recommendations. Resources issues/concerns:--