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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Alejandro,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your submission. Please note, you had mistyped my email in your original email. I am herewith forwarding your mail so that appears in the comment thread for the Public Comment on Operating Standards.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Larisa B. Gurnick" <larisa.gurnick@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 7:09 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Lars Hoffmann <lars.hoffmann@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Fwd: [Ext] comment on Standards for Reviews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Alejandro Pisanty <<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com"><span style="color:purple">apisanty@gmail.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, February 2, 2018 at 13:15<br>
<b>To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Lars Hofmann <<a href="mailto:lars.hofmann@icann.org"><span style="color:purple">lars.hofmann@icann.org</span></a>>, John Jeffrey <<a href="mailto:john.jeffrey@icann.org"><span style="color:purple">john.jeffrey@icann.org</span></a>>,
Leon Felipe Sanchez Ambia <<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx"><span style="color:purple">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</span></a>>, Cherine Chalaby <<a href="mailto:cherine.chalaby@board.icann.org"><span style="color:purple">cherine.chalaby@board.icann.org</span></a>>,
Goran Marby <<a href="mailto:goran.marby@icann.org"><span style="color:purple">goran.marby@icann.org</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[Ext] comment on Standards for Reviews</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">Dear Mr. Hofmann,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">please accept this comment as Public Comment on the Operating Standards for ICANN's Specific Reviews<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">The process by which members of Review Teams and similar working groups and parties should be modified to allow the inclusion of volunteers recommended by the Board
of Directors and other possible relevant instances outside the present process closed by the SO and AC leadership, in order to enable the introduction of opinions which may dissent from those in the SO and AC leadership. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">The process approved after the IANA transition has become too closed, as part of a trend to deprive the Board of some opportunities to take part in the activities of
ICANN. As a result, the selection of reviewers has now become more political instead of less, and more liable instead of less to lead to a choice of "comfortable" reviewers at the expense of those who may find flaws and recommend changes in parts of ICANN
other than the operational and managerial staff. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">To further aggravate the consequences of this change, the SO and AC leadership is not subject to the kind of stringent scrutiny the Board and staff are in terms of accountability,
transparency, and conflicts of interest. The opportunities for situations commonly described as "circling the wagons", "you pat my back, I'll pat your back" and other irregularites are too high to leave untouched.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">ICANN will be affected by this paradoxal aspect of its institutional design as it will be described by others - some frankly inimical - as an organization which is too
closed on itself; and may already be suffering the consequences of this design in the difficulties the SSR2 Review is finding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">Additional disclosure, I have personally observed this in the SSR2 process, whereas the reviews including the first SSR which I had the honor to chair, based on ICANN's
previous instiutional design were able to introduce strong critics of all involved ICANN parties and produce results whose beneficial consequences have been adopted over rather long periods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">I would be most grateful if you included this note formally as submitted to the comment process, in time before the deadline, and if you could acknowledge receipt of
this communication. Unfortunately I have not been able to submit it through the link provided on the website due to some configuration mismatches which will take some time and careful decisions on privacy to resolve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="color:black">Alejandro Pisanty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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