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Dear BC Members,<br>
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Please find below an announcement of the Open Public Comment for
ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert
Report.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Kind Regards,
Benedetta Rossi
BC Secretariat
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experts as part of their review of ICANN's conflicts
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considering the Report and the adoption of the
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lang="EN-US">Section I: Description, Explanation,
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">As a part of ICANN's commitment to
enhancing its overall culture of promoting superior
ethics, integrity and transparency, ICANN is posting
for public comment the Report developed by the team of
independent international experts with recommendations
on enhancing ICANN's conflicts and ethics frameworks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Over the past year, heightened attention
and scrutiny has been placed on how the ICANN Board
addresses conflicts of interest, and on enhancing
ICANN's ethical culture. While ICANN has a robust
conflict of interest policy and code of conduct in
place, work has been ongoing with the community and
experts to determine how these, or implementation of
them, can be further enhanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">The work posted for public comment today
represents one stage of ICANN's three-stage review.
ICANN engaged a team of international ethics experts
to provide recommendations for the enhancement of
ICANN's ethical culture, drawing on international
sources, including practices in other not-for-profit
organizations. The team of experts produced the Report
posted for public comment that will be discussed
during the ICANN meeting in Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Other work arising out of this
three-stage review has already been presented to the
community. ICANN engaged two sets of outside counsel –
one that is familiar with ICANN to perform a holistic
review of our policies to identify how they can be
refined; and another set that is not familiar with
ICANN to provide a review and recommendations for
enhancements. The Board has already adopted the
recommendations from those two stages of the review.
As another facet of this work, the ICANN Board has
finalized and announced rules on how Directors with
interests in specific New gTLD applications may
participate in New gTLD-related discussions and in
post-Board service activities. In addition ICANN
announced stringent communication rules for its staff
regarding communications with potential new gTLD
applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">The Report prepared by the team of
independent ethics experts is available at: </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://prague44.icann.org/meetings/prague2012/presentation-ethics-coi-final-report-25jun12-en.pdf"><span
lang="EN-US">http://prague44.icann.org/meetings/prague2012/presentation-ethics-coi-final-report-25jun12-en.pdf</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"> [PDF, 570 KB]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">Information and links to some of the
other work arising out of this three-stage review is
available at: </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15may12-en.htm"><span
lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15may12-en.htm</span></a></span><span
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">(*) Comments submitted after the posted Close
Date/Time are not guaranteed to be considered in any final
summary, analysis, reporting, or decision-making that takes
place once this period lapses.</span></em><span
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