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===Closed Door Meetings===
===Closed Door Meetings===
There is a constant tension between keeping ICANN Board decisions and meetings transparent to all stakeholders and holding private discussions related to internally divisive and publicly detrimental issues. It even created an [[Accountability and Transparency Review Team]] to make recommendations to improve its internal processes and external communications. The team's first report was due at the end of 2010, and it is to continue to review and report at least every three years on the implementation of its previous findings and the identification of other discrepancies.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/review-1-en.htm ICANN.org, Review]</ref>
There is a constant tension between keeping ICANN Board decisions and meetings transparent to all stakeholders and holding private discussions related to internally divisive and publicly detrimental issues. It even created an [[Accountability and Transparency Review Team]] to make recommendations to improve its internal processes and external communications. The team's first report was due at the end of 2010, and it is to continue to review and report at least every three years on the implementation of its previous findings and the identification of other discrepancies.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/review-1-en.htm ICANN.org, Review]</ref>
ICANN has had this problem from the beginning, and was immediately critiziced for its closed door meetings. An original board member, [[Hans Kraaijenbrink]], defensively argued that the U.S. executive branch does not meet in public and that "decision making cannot be done in full, public view. [[ICANN]]'s first chair, [[Esther Dyson]], tackled the issue head on and held public forums to address the concerns over closed door meetings and made progress with regards to creating greater transparency despite the objections of much of the board.<ref>[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/dyson_pr.html Dyson, Wired.com]</ref>
==ICANN 2011 Board of Directors==
==ICANN 2011 Board of Directors==