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<div class="">Note1: ‘Community’ refers to cross-community accountability group, whether by Members, Supervisory Board, or other mechanism.</div>
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<div class="">Community powers:</div>
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<div class="">Community appoints representatives to the Affirmation of Commitments Review Teams.</div>
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<div class="">Community has standing to send any board decision to independent Review Panel (may begin the IRP with a Cooperative Engagement Process)</div>
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<div class="">Community has standing to begin a reconsideration request on decisions of board or ICANN management, on matters of process or of substance. </div>
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<div class="">Community may approve/disapprove proposed ICANN annual budget.</div>
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<div class="">Community may approve/disapprove proposed changes to ICANN bylaws or Articles of Incorporation.</div>
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<div class="">Community may recall one or all ICANN board members.</div>
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<div class="">Review and Redress Mechanisms:</div>
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<div class="">Decisions of Independent Review Panel are binding on ICANN’s board.</div>
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<div class="">Panelists in the IRP pool should be selected by the Community.</div>
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<div class="">The standard for Independent Review should be lower.</div>
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<div class="">The cost to prosecute an Independent Review should be reduced.</div>
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<div class="">IRP should address errors or ethical lapses.</div>
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<div class="">Ombudsman should be able to investigate any accountability-related complaint brought by an ICANN employee, while protecting confidentiality of the employee</div>
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<div class="">Affirmation of Commitments:</div>
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<div class="">The Affirmation of Commitments should not be a bilateral agreement with USG that can be canceled by either party. It could be merged into ICANN bylaws, for example.</div>
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<div class="">The Accountability & Transparency Review Team (ATRT) could recommend sunset of previously required reviews, and create new reviews.</div>
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<div class="">Mission/Scope of ICANN:</div>
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<div class="">ICANN should be prevented from imposing obligations on others, unless supported by consensus of affected parties and necessary to protect the integrity and availability of unique identifiers in the DNS.</div>
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<div class="">ICANN should be prevented from acting outside its Bylaws and Articles</div>
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<div class="">Steve DelBianco</div>
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<div class="">NetChoice</div>
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