<p dir="ltr">Dear All,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Over the past couple of months, I have watched how alot of the comments are ICANN related. I feel that for the most part ICANN is a continuously morphing entity that is seriously committed to inclusion, participation from diverse stakeholders and whose Policy Development Processes are open to comment, replies etc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are some other organisations such as W3C who have working groups that are known to have only 6 days comment period etc. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Whilst organisations differ in how they organise themselves, there are aspects of what they do that require minumum threshholds of accountability and best practice.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> It might be useful to determine a benchmark via ratings.These ratings could be carried out independently.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regardless of the institution, something worthwhile looking at are some sort of high level principles that can be used to audit or to be considered best practice for organisations so they can be rated.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would be interested to see studies commissioned in this area pertaining to issues of accessibility as it relates to meaningful participation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kind Regards,<br>
Sala</p>