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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Also, in response to Eberhard&#8217;s previous post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I'm curious why you think a ccTLD manager's choice to not join the ccNSO equates to an unworkable accountability model for those who have opted to join and participate and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">If a ccTLD manager is not a member of the ccNSO, is paying no fees to ICANN and is not bound by ccNSO policy, please help me understand how they are impacted and why they
 would care about the ICANN Board's accountability mechanisms to its community. I fully understand why every TLD registry cares about the IANA functions and changes to the root zone file, but our issue of greater ICANN Accountability is a broader discussion
 than the IANA-specific concerns and accountability mechanisms currently being addressed via the CWG Transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">As you have acknowledged, unlike the gTLD registries (and the broader community interested in gTLD policies), ccTLD managers have a built-in accountability mechanism...their
 ability to&nbsp; &quot;leave to become unbound by ccNSO developed policy.&quot; As you well know, the gTLD registries and the GNSO do not currently enjoy that luxury.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roelof Meijer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CCWG Accountability<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] got some lawyerly answers on membership structure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I wonder in which direction you would see a solution to this, Eberhard. To work properly, and especially if that influence will increase, the influence of stakeholders
 will have to be organized in one way or another.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Which is probably why the SO&#8217;s and AC&#8217;s were created.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Without them, I suggest, there would be a lot more noise, combined with (even) less progress. Could a gathering of all individual stakeholders ever come up with
 any useful decision on the crucial subjects that we forsee?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
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<b>Date: </b>woensdag 28 januari 2015 06:33<br>
<b>To: </b>CCWG Accountability &lt;<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Cc: </b>&quot;<a href="mailto:directors@omadhina.net">directors@omadhina.net</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:directors@omadhina.net">directors@omadhina.net</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [CCWG-ACCT] got some lawyerly answers on membership structure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Will not fly, because for example not all ccTLD Managers are members of the ccNSO, and nothing prevents a ccTLD Manager from leaving to become unbound by ccNSO
 developed ICANN Policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">And the structures are so diverse internally that once someone is elected a recall is never going to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Jan 28, 2015, at 03:32, Drazek, Keith &lt;<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">In this context, ICANN's &quot;shareholders&quot; or &quot;members&quot; would be the elected or appointed Chairs of the existing ICANN community's bottom-up, consensus-based, multi-stakeholder
 structures. If those Chairs aren't ethical, then they could and should be replaced by their respective groups. I believe this would give us a built-in and permanent accountability loop rooted in the multi-stakeholder system, which is precisely what NTIA has
 asked for.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:50 PM, &quot;Rudolph Daniel&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:rudi.daniel@gmail.com">rudi.daniel@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">No nuance missing Jonathan. :)<br>
Likening to shareholders reminded me that shareholders are not always ethical in their pursuit of accountability.<br>
RD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">On Jan 27, 2015 6:58 PM, &quot;Jonathan Zuck&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:JZuck@actonline.org">JZuck@actonline.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Hmmm. I guess &#8220;we&#8221; is the community that have reached a fairly solid consensus that new accountability mechanisms need to be put in place at ICANN. And the role &#8220;we&#8221; seek them to play is exactly what EBW outlined below as aspirational. The issue is structural
 reform that empowers the community to hold the board of ICANN accountable going forward. Likening it to &#8220;shareholder&#8221; accountability is not about turning ICANN into a commercial organization, merely addressing concerns surrounding liability. What nuance am
 I missing here?<br>
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&gt; &nbsp;<br>
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&gt; From: Rudolph Daniel [mailto:<a href="mailto:rudi.daniel@gmail.com">rudi.daniel@gmail.com</a>]
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&gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:55 PM<br>
&gt; To: Jonathan Zuck<br>
&gt; Cc: Accountability Cross Community; Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
&gt; Subject: RE: [CCWG-ACCT] got some lawyerly answers on membership structure<br>
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&gt; &nbsp;<br>
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&gt; Not sure I get who 'we' is and&nbsp; 'seek them to play'&nbsp; ? <br>
&gt; RD<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Jan 27, 2015 6:44 PM, &quot;Jonathan Zuck&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:JZuck@actonline.org">JZuck@actonline.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt;&gt; Agree but the point of accountability mechanisms is to ensure the board continues to play the role we seek them to play.<br>
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&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
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&gt;&gt; From: <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>] On
 Behalf Of Rudolph Daniel<br>
&gt;&gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:38 PM<br>
&gt;&gt; To: Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
&gt;&gt; Cc: Accountability Cross Community<br>
&gt;&gt; Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] got some lawyerly answers on membership structure<br>
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&gt;&gt; &nbsp;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; I would think, and&nbsp; certainly it has been suggested elsewhere that public accountably be less of the shareholder kind and more of the ethical variety.<br>
&gt;&gt; RD<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On Jan 27, 2015 3:04 PM, &quot;Eric Brunner-Williams&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net">ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; All,<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; I would not like to see the Board's duty as stewards of the public trust -- exercising reasonable care, inquisitive,&nbsp; ... the strictest standard of duty of care in American law -- reduced to the pursuit of quarterly profits maximization prevalent in for-profit
 Boards.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; ICANN&#8217;s Board of Directors would become accountable to the community, in much the same way that the Boards of publicly-traded companies are ultimately accountable to their shareholders.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; I suggest our standards are, by initial design, higher than the likeness proposed.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Eugene, Oregon<br>
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