Dear all, As you may know, ICANN's Accountability and Transparency Review Team 2 (ATRT2) has published a draft report + has listed a number of recommendations, which they wish to receive input to by 22 November 2013. The report is available at http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/draft-recommendations-15oct13- en.pdf Whilst it is an important document, it is also massive and the recommendations many - and the time frame to reply to it is very short. In order to gather input from the ccTLD Community in an efficient way, the ccNSO Council decided to extract the topics that seem to be of most interest to ccTLDs and then ask Community members to prepare input to the topics that are of interest to them. The input can be in the form of questions and/or comments. Each topic is "lead" by one or two Councillors, which will gather the input received. It will then be presented to the ATRT 2 team, which we will meet with during the Buenos Aires meeting (Tuesday afternoon). The identified topics are: * Section/recomendation 1-3 on quality of the Board * Section/Recommendation 4: mechanism for SO/AC consultation on executive and administrative issues to be addressed at Board level * Section/Recommendation 7: explore mechanisms to improve public comment through adjusted time allotments * Section/Recommendation 8: capacity of language services to increase participation * Section/Recommendation 9, sub recommendations consideration of decision-making inputs and appeal processes * Section/Recommendation 11: effectiveness of Review Process and its sub-recomendations * Section/Recommendation 12: Financial Accountability and Transparency If you have an interest in any of these topics and are willing to contribute please, let me know by Thursday, 7 November, at the latest! Your names will then be forwarded to the designated Councillor(s), who will contact you during the coming week. We really need your help and support, so we are hoping to hear from as many of you as possible! Kind regards, Gabi