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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This pertains to our discussion yesterday about a permanent, cross-community ‘Membership’ group to hold ICANN board and management accountable to the community. It was described this way in
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<div>Amend ICANN bylaws to recognize a permanent cross-community representative structure (all ACs, SOs, Constituencies) with authority to:</div>
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<div>Appoint members of Affirmation review teams</div>
<div>Review a board decision, or resolve a dispute (option to use independent panel)</div>
<div>Approve changes to ICANN bylaws or Articles, with 2/3 approval</div>
<div>Approve annual proposed ICANN budget</div>
<div>Recall one or all ICANN Board members</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">One of the groups
<a href="http://www.innovationfiles.org/key-principles-for-the-icann-transition/">
proposing</a> a c<span style="font-size: 16px;">ommunity of stakeholders as ultimate authority posted</span> a relevant
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Op-Ed</a> in a Washington paper today. Daniel Castro of the <span style="font-size: 16px;">Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) wrote:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">California state law applies since ICANN is a registered nonprofit corporation in the state. As such, California law allows nonprofit organizations to have statutory members. Gunnarson suggests that one way to provide an
effective check on the ICANN board's power is to create statutory members of ICANN with extensive authority over the board. This authority could include removing board members, overturning board decisions, etc. The statutory members would likely include the
chairs of the various ICANN "supporting organizations" and "advisory committees," such as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) responsible for IP address policy and the Country Code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) responsible for managing the country
code top-level domains. To ensure that the statutory members do not hold too much sway, their actions could be limited to situations where there is a supermajority (i.e., consensus). </span></div>
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