<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I have serious problems with question 1 as written, because individual ccTLDs are not subject to consensus or any involvement of third parties.</div><div><br></div><div>el</div><div><br>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini</div><div><br>On Jan 3, 2015, at 20:30, David W. Maher <<a href="mailto:dmaher@pir.org">dmaher@pir.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Every time a corporation executes a contract, it assumes obligations and liabilities. If the board of the corporation believes in good faith that the contract serves the interests of the corporation (and the contract is not in violation of the corporate
charter and bylaws), this is not necessarily an abdication of its fiduciary responsibility.</div>
<div>The ICANN Board should be able to give this WG answers to the following questions regarding its willingness to accept contract terms along the lines of:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">1. Will ICANN agree by binding contract not to impose rules on third parties (by means of policies, accreditation standards, or required contract terms) that are not supported by a demonstrated consensus
among affected parties?</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">2. Will ICANN agree by binding contract not to impose rules on third parties (by means of policies, accreditation standards, or required contract terms) that do not relate to issues the uniform resolution
of which is necessary to assure sound operation of the domain name system?</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">3. Will ICANN agree by binding contract not to impose rules on third parties (by means of policies, accreditation standards, or required contract terms) that relate to online content or to online behavior
that does not threaten the sound operation of the domain name system?</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">4. Will ICANN agree that any claim that it has not complied with the previous three obligations may be brought by any adversely affected party before an independent review panel that can issue decisions
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>JAMES BLADEL <<a href="mailto:jbladel@godaddy.com">jbladel@godaddy.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, January 2, 2015 10:09 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>><br>
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<div>Ive been following this thread as best I can, and believe Bruce and Avri are on the right course. If the Board has a legal & fiduciary responsibility to ICANN the corporation, then this line of questioning could be perceived as "under what circumstances/scenarios
would you willingly abdicate your fiduciary responsibility?" I don't see how could they possibly provide an answer that is useful to our work....</div>
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On Jan 2, 2015, at 09:21, Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org">avri@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,<br>
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My concern about asking the Board what they would decide is that it is far to hypothetical for them to give any answer other than the one Bruce offered.<br>
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How can a Board give any answer other than the one that says, give us a recommendation, lets get the community view and see how the 3/4 unfolds in our discussions.<br>
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Closer to being answerable is whether there is a legal way for them to do what the CCWG might ask for.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01-Jan-15 18:08, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear Kavouss</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thank you for this question which is a very sensible one. Let me try to clarify what I am trying to accomplish by my proposal.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I am a complete and firm support of Board accountability to the Community. That is 100% clear and I think you and I are in firm agreement on that.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I may, however, not be clear about my method and process. From my perspective the strongest accountability would be with a clear Bylaw limitation on ICANN functionality and a provision for an outside arbiter. Both of those changes
would require Board approval. I am not trying to subordinate the CCWG to the Board. Far from it – what I am trying to do is find out as early in the process whether the Board is going to be willing to agree to subordinate itself to the Community through
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>So, I think the place where you may misunderstand me is at the very end of your note – where you say “why you want to limit CCWG to just follow those areas of accountability that Board wishes?” I think you are assuming that if the
Board said “no” to the questions I was asking that my reaction would be to say “oh … oh well. That is OK. If the Board won’t agree, we can’t do it.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>My real reaction, in practice, would be exactly the opposite – I would urge the Community to dig in for an extended discussion with the Board and use my limited powers of persuasion to rally the community to demand that the Board
changed its mind. </span><span>J</span><span> And I would probably urge CCWG to recommend those same things anyway – but at least we would do that knowing what was going to happen.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Does that help?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> Kavouss Arasteh [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com">mailto:kavouss.arasteh@gmail.com</a>]
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Paul,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The way you commenting on the matter could have two different interprétations or leave two different impressions:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A) You are a firm supporter of accountabilty process when we note your comments about Mathieu</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">B) You wish to raise the question Under discussion to the Board asking what they wish to see from CCWG and what they do not see from CCWG .The latter interpretation ,in my view, seems to be subordinating CCWG to the Board in the sense that
we just study, elaborate and recoomend those area of accountability that Board is comfortable with but not CCWG address the full picture, objectives, requiremnets of accountability.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pls find a coherence between interpretation A) and interpretation B) .In order words if you are really in favour of addressing the accountability in a fullflege scope why you want to limit CCWG to just follow those areas of accountability
that Board wishes?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2015-01-01 21:35 GMT+01:00 Paul Rosenzweig <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com" target="_blank">paul.rosenzweig@redbranchconsulting.com</a>>:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Bruce is a wonderful man. But we don’t need his opinion, we need a formal commitment from the Board. That’s why we need to ask the question in an official manner.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Indeed, I would posit that if the accountability working group tasked with ensuring accountability by ICANN is reluctant to even ask the Board a question then the communities capacity to actually reign in Board excess when/if it perceives
such would be very limited. If we are so unwilling to even ask a question, will we be willing to tell the Board “no.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In any event, if we choose not to ask this question, then the scope of WS1 has just expanded to essentially include almost all oversight mechanisms we might conceivably want – which would, I think, be the wrong result.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I agree to the term that no one should dictate the CCWG.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Still why there is a need that we raise any such question to the Board,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Bruce is quite active and requested to continue the Liaison</p>
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On 1 Jan 2015, at 15:28, Seun Ojedeji <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p>Thanks for this information, I will then suggest that this WG determine if those steps will indeed be appropriate for us especially since WS1 is more of a perquisite to transition. One would expect some adjustments on timing and wording rights to be made
in the process, also board voting rights in this particular process may need to be agreed upon. It will not be encouraging to have implementation stopped on the basis of no 2/3 board majority....time utilization is an important factor in all these. So the
earlier we involve board (without having them dictate for us) the better.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1 Jan 2015 04:55, "Bruce Tonkin" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au" target="_blank">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au</a>> wrote:</p>
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>> I think writing to board to know how it will treat the WG outcome especially when some of it's implementations will require by-law modifications that further involve the ICANN community in decision making process may be useful.<br>
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In terms of the process for making bylaws changes, changes have previously been made to accommodate recommendations from the review teams associated with the work of the Accountability and Transparency Review Teams (ATRT)
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https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/atrt-2012-02-25-en</a> .<br>
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Any archive of all previous versions of the bylaws is available here:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/archive-bc-2012-02-25-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/archive-bc-2012-02-25-en</a><br>
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Based on our current practice I would expect the process to be as follows:<br>
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- Board accepts recommendations from the CCWG<br>
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- General Counsel's office prepares specific text to change in the bylaws<br>
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- Board then votes on the bylaws amendments - a 2/3 majority of the Board is required to make a bylaw change<br>
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If there is significant community comments against the proposed bylaws language - then a new draft of the bylaws would be put out for public comment that is consistent with the recommendations from the CCWG.<br>
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