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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear <span style='color:#1F497D'>a</span>ll, <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The notes, recordings and transcripts for the <b>Accountability</b> <b>LEGAL SubTeam Meeting <span style='color:#1F497D'>#13</span> - 23 April </b> will be available here:<span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="%20%20%20https:/community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52897284"> https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52897284</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:#FFFEFE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FFFEFE'> A copy of the</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:#FFFEFE'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:#FFFEFE'>notes from the session <span style='color:black'>may be found below. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FFFEFE'>Thanks,</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FEFDFD'>Best regards</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FDFCFC'>Brenda</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:22.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Action Items: none <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:22.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Notes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Leon: Will work through the questions with the legal advisors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Voting threshold and super majorities. Can open the door to a tyranny of the masses. Where a small group can block and issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Supermajority typically 66%. Get to 75% and can open the way to some blocking. Might reach that level for constitutional (type) decisions, but do run a risk. Need to do math to see what the<br>risks might be. And might be in the Articles rather than the bylaws. Need to figure that out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Care with abstentions. If too many abstain then the decision can be made by a very small group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>If there is concern about a group like the GAC then they might continue as now without voting rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>If GAC. for example, made as a member of the organization there is some risk that someone may come to dominate the GAC and therefore capture the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. Caretaker board in the event of removal of the whole board. Can a caretaker board be implemented and how implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Need a simultaneous mechanism to put a board in place, There are ways to hold a board on place, but they are likely to quit. Can put people in as placeholders, knowing you will run a<br>selection process later. This caretaker board has all the powers of the board, they are caretaker in name only. Removal of a whole board is unusual, and need to think about how under <br>CA law and other jurisdictions, needs research and not an immediate response. Good news is CA law allows flexibility in how to address this. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Can it be installed so it allow an uninterrupted operation of ICANN? Some certainty would be helpful when proposing this community power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. Can the SO/AC form unincorporated associations, while maintaining their current status in ICANN?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>A. Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>And already much of what's needed is in the bylaws. All advice suggests is needed is a simple article of incorporation that write in the sections from the ICANN bylaws, and they claim status <br>associated. And the SO/AC can continue as they had before. And as a member they could then exercise certain legal rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>They wouldn't have assets and no actives per se. The activities would still occur in the ICANN corporation, and these parallel structures would hold the contract rights, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. Are there any liabilities associated with unincorporated association over and above what we have now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Individual members would not be liable (legal advice currently considers), they would be members of the association. The designators and member organizations are taking specific actions, the<br>members are not. Legal advice is that the liability issue is not a concern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. Currently the Board controls many of the features of the various SOAc and of their subcomponents. Would that still be the case as unincorporated associations can rely on ICANN board governance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>It depends on ICANN board governance. And thinking through how the new parallel structure might look like. Current arrangements may not change<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. Can the SO/AC be dissolved?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>It will be protected by the new powers, and it can still dissolve itself. Can have provisions on the bylaws about the membership that the board couldn't change, but the members could. <br>There are some easy to fix concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>International concerns and unincorporated associations. SO/AC, to want them not to be unincorporated does leave them open to liability as you enhance community powers. And the use of <br>unincorporated associations does give additional protections. The bylaws drafted in a way, to provide that ICANN would be indemnifying the organizations, or the individuals acting for <br>the organizations. Working to ensure there would be no greater liability than community has today<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Q. If SO/AC remove their directors, then NomCom would remove theirs, and this goes to the issue of the NomCom's independence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Pre-appointment letter would probably work for NomCom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Community vote: the vote is through the designators or members. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Comment: The NonCom doesnąt need to become an unincorporated association to create and unincorporated association. This would be an alter-ego for the NomCom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Deliverables. Questions as presented during the call. 1, 3, and 4 addressed. Q 2, counsel need more time to look into, but short answer is the caretaker board can be implemented. And the rest of the questions will be addressed. Short answers for each.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;line-height:11.45pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>END<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>