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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" target="_blank">el@lisse.na</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just to state this early, over my dead boy will the Regional Organizations of the ccNSO have anything to do or say in this.<br>
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I would not mind every (cc)TLD Manager.<br>
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&gt; On Jan 24, 2015, at 01:32, Bruce Tonkin &lt;<a href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; Hello Greg,<br>
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&gt;&gt;&gt; Just brainstorming: one possibility may be to create &quot;mirror&quot; or &quot;alter ego&quot; organizations (perhaps corporations, perhaps some other form of organized entity), roughly along the lines of the NRO/ASO relationship (the ASO is an ICANN internal structure, while the NRO is not, yet they are essentially &quot;alter egos&quot;).  Thus, each SO and AC could create an entity independent of ICANN, but answerable to that SO and AC.  The external entities could then be members of ICANN.<br>
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&gt; My understanding also is that to be &quot;members&quot;  the organizations would need to be legal entities.   In a few of the examples given in this thread,  the &quot;coordinating&quot; organizations are not yet established as legal entities.<br>
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&gt; For example, the Number Resource Organization ( <a href="https://www.nro.net/" target="_blank">https://www.nro.net/</a>) is a coordinating body for the 5 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).   These five RIRs are legal entities - so it may make more sense for them to be the &quot;members&quot; of ICANN.<br>
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&gt; My understanding is that groups like the Registrar constituency, and the registrar stakeholder group (<a href="http://www.icannregistrars.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icannregistrars.org/</a> ) are deliberately not established as legal entities, or as trade associations.    They are coordinating groups - but any legal agreements etc are always between individual registrars as legal entities and ICANN.      Recently a domain name industry association was established - I assume this is a legal entity (<a href="http://www.thedna.org/" target="_blank">http://www.thedna.org/</a> ).<br>
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&gt; Regards,<br>
&gt; Bruce Tonkin<br>
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