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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The notes, recordings and transcripts for the </span><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Accountability Stress Tests Meeting #4 </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>on 15 April will be available </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>here: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52895714%20">https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52895714</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:22.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Action Items</span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Steve to refine paragraph on page 1</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM -Jonathan to recirculate explanatory note</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - remove strike through </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Read CWG input and incorporate any effect this may have on ST 21 as needed</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>. </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Cheryl to contact Bart Boswinkel/Bernie Turcotte to incorporate language</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:22.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Notes</span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Accountability Stress Tests WP Meeting #4 on 15 April</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Link: ST-WP Drafts - <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mye8o3e">http://tinyurl.com/mye8o3e</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>These high-level notes are designed to help you navigate through content of the call and do not substitute in any way the transcript.</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>P1 last paragraph will be edited. ST of interest to CWG will be added. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Steve to refine paragraph on page 1</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Edward Morris' additional ST will be #26<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>STs # 3, 4, 29, 11, 27, 17 - Board Inaction</span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>: ability to spur the Board to make a decision in order to trigger a reconsideration or IRP is not firmly established in any<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>of the design powers and mechanisms yet. Outreach to legal on Board inaction has not led to formal feedback. Suggestion that threaten Board of removal to solve for <br>Board inaction is not a formal mechanism. Expanding on ATRT recommendation #9 language in the bylaws might be sufficient to trigger the IRP and other<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>review mechanisms that are being worked on in Work Party 2. Conversation with WP1 to ensure inducing Board action is a community power. WP2 discussion<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>about whether or not existing redress mechanisms could somehow be triggered by a failure to act. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM -Jonathan to recirculate explanatory note</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Steve del Bianco flagged that Preserving AoC commitments in ICANN bylaws will be discussed in WP1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Suggestion that better to have Bylaw provision that forces Board an accountability to the community to respond to Advisory Committee formal advice. - Advisory Committees would benefit from this. Outreach to ACs might be needed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Community Veto STs #3, 4, 19, 10, 20, 15</span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - remove strike through </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>ST #18 GAC </span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Discussion is pending. Some GAC support for ST recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Should more urgent issues come forward from WP1 - WP2, stress test 18 still needs discussion - would cut back on 14 - 17 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>GAO</span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Steve provided GAO with overview of STs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>ST #21</span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Suggestion to amend ST 21 in light af CWG remarks concerning appeal mechanism and respect national legislation on redelegation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Read CWG input and incorporate any effect this may have on ST 21 as needed</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Consider including reference to GAC principles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>ACTION ITEM - Cheryl to contact Bart Boswinkel/Bernie Turcotte to incorporate language</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>