"The At-Large Advisory Committee is extremely disappointed by the latest release of the Proposed Final Applicant Guidebook of November 12, 2010 (PAG). In significant ways its changes reflect a deliberate step backwards, away from transparency and accountability, and towards secrecy and arbitrary action. Even more importantly, the new guidebook fails at any more than cosmetic accommodation of critical, Board-mandated policy work undertaken by ICANN's grass-roots community.
The At-Large Community, in this response, has chosen to focus on the three most substantive and regressive issues which requite our greatest attention. ..."