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===Ethics Policy===
===Ethics Policy===
Following the departure of Chairman [[Peter Dengate Thrush]] from the [[ICANN Board]], and his immediate hiring by [[Minds + Machines]] in 2011, The U.S. Government and other Internet stakeholders began calling for greater ethics controls and a clear policy to be put in place. The [[European Commission]], in one of its 6 non-papers of 2011, called for the USG to enforce such stipulations via its [[IANA]] contract. U.S. Senator [[Ron Wyden]] also called for ethics rules to be put in place via a letter to [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]]. In September, 2011, the head of NTIA, [[Lawrence Strickling]], responded to Wyden with assurances that it is “actively exploring how to best meet this requirement” for “a clear and enforced ethics and conflict of interest policy”. This came at a time when NTIA says it was undertaking its first comprehensive review of its IANA contract with ICANN since it was awarded in 2000.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/09/28/us-department-of-commerce-to-icann-we-want-a-clear-enforced-ethics-conflict-of-interest-policy%E2%80%9D/ DOC to ICANN Clear Ethics Policy, thedomains.com]</ref>
Following the departure of Chairman [[Peter Dengate Thrush]] from the [[ICANN Board]], and his immediate hiring by [[Minds + Machines]] in 2011, The U.S. Government and other Internet stakeholders began calling for greater ethics controls and a clear policy to be put in place. The [[European Commission]], in one of its 6 non-papers of 2011, called for the USG to enforce such stipulations via its [[IANA]] contract. U.S. Senator [[Ron Wyden]] also called for ethics rules to be put in place via a letter to [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]]. In September, 2011, the head of NTIA, [[Lawrence Strickling]], responded to Wyden with assurances that it is “actively exploring how to best meet this requirement” for “a clear and enforced ethics and conflict of interest policy”. This came at a time when NTIA says it was undertaking its first comprehensive review of its IANA contract with ICANN since it was awarded in 2000.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/09/28/us-department-of-commerce-to-icann-we-want-a-clear-enforced-ethics-conflict-of-interest-policy%E2%80%9D/ DOC to ICANN Clear Ethics Policy, thedomains.com]</ref>
===New gTLDs===
The U.S. Government had been involved in the 6 year process that created the 2011 gTLD Application Program, and NTIA's [[Lawrence Strickling]] has been both a vocal critic and ally of ICANN, its processes, and the new gTLD program. In January, 2012, Mr. Strickling wrote to ICANN following multiple recent hearings in the U.S. Congress regarding ICANN's new gTLD program; this was a time of widespread concern on behalf of poorly-informed trademark owners, and also calls for the delay or cancellation of the program by trademark lobby groups [[CRIDO]] and [[CADNA]]. What little media attention the program received was almost wholly negative, including Op-eds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In his letter, addressed to [[ICANN Chairman|Chairman]] [[Steve Crocker]], Mr. Strickling urged ICANN to more successfully showcase their new gTLD expansion program, and especially emphasize the number of built-in protections for trademark owners.<ref>[http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_letter_on_gtld_program_jan_3_2012.pdf NTIA Letter on gTLD Program Jan 3 2012, ntia.doc.gov]</ref> The letter can be seen [http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_letter_on_gtld_program_jan_3_2012.pdf here]
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