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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve DelBianco<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2015 3:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> accountability-cross-community@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CCWG-ACCT] Stress Test on whether the CCWG proposals require courts to interpret ICANN's mission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">On this week's stress test team call, we looked at Chris Disspain’s hypothetical (at bottom). The team had difficulty identifying a scenario under which a California court would,
as Chris suggested, "make binding decisions about interpretation of ICANN’s mission.” This was due in part to a misunderstanding embedded in Chris’ scenario. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">What we’ve done below is take Chris’ scenario and turn it into two scenarios that could happen under the Member powers described in the CCWG proposal. We don’t think either of
these scenarios would result in the outcome Chris worried over. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Stress Test version 1: Board refuses to follow community recommendation <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">1. An ATRT (Accountability and Transparency Review Team) recommends a new policy for implementation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">2. The ICANN board decides to reject the recommendation, saying it conflicts with ICANN’s limited Mission Statement in the amended bylaws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">3. Community Members vote to challenge the board’s decision with an IRP. An IRP panel of 3 international arbitrators (not a Court) finds that the ATRT recommendation does
<u>not</u> conflict with “substantive limitations on the permissible scope of ICANN’s actions” (p.32). The IRP panel therefore cancels the board decision to reject the ATRT recommendation.(pp. 31-32 of proposal ) Our current proposal does not give Members
the power to force ICANN board to accept and implement the ATRT recommendation. (p.32)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">4. If the board refused to implementing the ATRT recommendation (see step 1), Members could vote to recall the board. Members could also vote to block the very next budget or
strat plan if it did <u>not</u> include the ATRT recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Stress Test version 2: Board follows community recommendation, but is reversed by IRP decision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">1. An ATRT (Accountability and Transparency Review Team) recommends a new policy for implementation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">2. The ICANN board decides to
<u>accept</u> the recommendation, believing that it does <u>not</u> conflict with ICANN’s limited Mission Statement in the amended bylaws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">3. An aggrieved party or Community Members vote to challenge the board’s decision with an IRP. An IRP panel of international arbitrators (not a Court) finds that the ATRT recommendation
<u>does</u> conflict with “substantive limitations on the permissible scope of ICANN’s actions” (p.32). The IRP panel therefore cancels the board decision to accept and implement the ATRT recommendation.(pp. 31-32 of proposal )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">4. If the board ignored the IRP ruling and continued to implement its earlier decision, parties to the IRP could ask courts to enforce the IRP decision. Would that court re-litigate
the IRP’s substantive decision interpreting the ICANN bylaws? That is not our expectation, since it is only "expected that judgements of the IRP Panel would be
<i><u>enforceable</u></i> in the court of the US and other countries that <i><u>accept international arbitration results</u></i>” (p.34, emphasis added) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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budget or strat plan if it included implementation of the ATRT recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">21/05/2015 03:45, Chris Disspain wrote (<a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-May/003035.html"><span style="color:purple">link</span></a> and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">Second, I would like to use a step-by-step scenario to explain where my concerns lie. Under the CCWG’s currently proposed mechanisms:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">1. The community, pursuant to powers defined in a “fundamental bylaw”, and through a vote of that meeting the required threshold for support, directs the Board to do X</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">2. The Board refuses to do X because it maintains that X is outside of the mission of ICANN</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">3. The community triggers escalation mechanisms</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">5. The arbitrator finds in favour of the community and directs ICANN to do X</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">6. The Board refuses to act, citing, again, that it believes the action is outside of ICANN’s mission</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444">7. After the necessary community votes etc., the community now heads to court. In the State of California.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre style="background:white;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">As I understand it, the role of the court in this scenario would be to determine whether the Board is acting in a way that is serving the public interest within ICANN’s mission. It would not be to decide whether, on balance, the community was ‘more right’ than the Board. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Right now as a global multi-stakeholder body we decide the nuances of the meaning of ICANN’s mission and the way ICANN acts under that mission by using the multi-stakeholder process and by compromise and nuanced decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">If we agree to the CCWG recommendations we will not be handing ultimate authority to the members but rather we will be handing ultimate authority to a state based American court and allowing it to make binding and precedent setting decisions about the interpretation of ICANN’s mission. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Does the ICANN community really want the specific nuances of ICANN’s mission to be held up to scrutiny and have decisions made, at the highest level, through such a mechanism? Whilst that may give comfort to, for example, US members of the intellectual property community or US listed registries, it gives me no comfort whatsoever.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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