Hi all<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Keith has put the issue of control/enforceability/accountability much more elegantly than I managed last night and I would like just to say I agree with this paras as included below.</div><div><br></div><div>Final authority to hold the board to account is essentially what we are talking about. That's what I mean when I say 'control'. I do not - and nobody has suggested - replacing the Board's job as the governing body for ICANN as it is today.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Jordan<br><br>On Thursday, 21 May 2015, Drazek, Keith <<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Steve,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I see the proposed community membership structure simply as a check on the power of the Board, nothing more. It’s not about “controlling” or replacing the Board.
The Board has its legitimate function, but its decisions cannot be unchallengeable. The community must have the ability to tell the Board it got a decision wrong and to enforce the will of the multi-stakeholder community in rare/limited instances and based
on a very high threshold of community agreement/consensus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I would certainly trust the proposed community members, representing their SOs and ACs, to be balanced, inclusive and trustworthy in protecting the interests
of the overall community -- in their role as the aforementioned check on the powers of the Board. Not as a replacement.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>Jordan Carter<br>Chief Executive, InternetNZ<p>+64-21-442-649 | <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a><p>Sent on the run, apologies for brevity<br></p></p>