[council] Affirmation of Commitments Accountability and Transparency Review: Independent Expert - Request for Proposals

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-02jul13-en.htm
Affirmation of Commitments Accountability and Transparency Review: Independent 
Expert - Request for Proposals
2 July 2013

Deadline: 15 July 2013

The Affirmation of Commitments (AOC) signed by ICANN establishes ongoing 
reviews of ICANN's Accountability and Transparency - 
http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/aoc/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm<https://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/aoc/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm>.
 Review of ICANN's execution of core tasks is undertaken by "review teams." The 
second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2) is examining ICANN's 
activities to ensure they are accountable, transparent, and undertaken 
consistent with the public 
interest.1<https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-02jul13-en.htm#foot1>

The ATRT2's activities are focused on paragraph 9.1 of the AoC where ICANN 
commits to maintain and improve robust mechanisms for public input, 
accountability, and transparency so as to ensure that the outcomes of its 
decision-making will reflect the public interest and be accountable to all 
stakeholders. The ATRT2 will make recommendations, as needed, to the ICANN 
Board for improvements by December 31, 2013.

As part of its review effort, the ATRT 2 now issues a Request for 
Proposals<https://www.icann.org/en/news/rfps/atrt2-01jul13-en.pdf> [PDF, 91 KB] 
(RfP) in order to appoint an independent expert. The purpose of this assignment 
is to assess the effectiveness of ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization 
(GNSO) Policy Development Process (PDP) and whether the current GNSO PDP 
process satisfies the needs of the multi stakeholder model and Internet users.

Interested parties are invited to provide relevant background material, written 
methodology for execution of this task, views on the tentative timeline, a 
proposed budget, resumes, references and financial information about the party 
by 15 July 2013 -23:59 UTC to Alice E. Jansen, ICANN, Strategic Initiatives 
Manager at alice.jansen@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:alice.jansen@xxxxxxxxx>.

The ATRT 2 will conduct conference calls with candidates on 22-23 July and 
expects to make its final selection of the independent expert on 26 July 2013.

In its examination of ICANN's activities, the ATRT 2 recently published 
Questions to the Community for Public Comment. The questions and the responses 
are available at 
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/atrt2-02apr13-en.htm<https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/atrt2-02apr13-en.htm>

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1<https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-02jul13-en.htm#note1>
 For information on the membership of ATRT and its activities including meeting 
schedules, agendas, minutes, etc. see https://community.icann.org/x/mQllAg.


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org