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ATRT Final Recommendations #9 generally reflects the community feed backs and contains the improvements. Rec.9.2 is particularly important for accountability of decision-making process and reform of appeal mechanism. It is insightful to form a SCG to examine the options to restructure the current IRP and reconsideration process. But it is still unclear whether the review/restructure will cover the other "appeal" mechanisms in various gTLDs and ccTLDs processes, such as the objection procedures in the new gTLD program and apply for review procedure in IDN ccTLD program. It is especially unclear whether IRP and reconsideration process will be the "final" appeal channel available to review any other appeal decisions, either from internal bodies or outside service providers.

Additional note by Avri Doria

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: As we have not seen what the Board intends to do about recommendation 9.2  it is good to be skeptical.  But if indeed they do honor the suggestion for a community wide discussion of ICANN accountability and appeals, then At-large needs a strategy for contributing to that.  For accountability to be real, it needs to extend to all of the ALS so that they can look at it from the diversity of global user  perspectives that only At-Large can bring to ICANN.

Questions:

1) What sort of appeals mechanisms does ICANN need?

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