<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Totally agree with you Thomas. The Bylaws should be lean, flexible and contain only what is absolutely necessary for ICANN to function as a responsive accountable membership based California public benefits corporation. Everything else should find a home in operations and procedural documentation.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Thomas Rickert &lt;<a href="mailto:rickert@anwaelte.de">rickert@anwaelte.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Thanks Keith,</div><div>you are correct.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>We should put in the bylaws what is required to achieve our goals.&nbsp;</div><div>We should avoid putting redundant language in there as that may cause ambiguity.</div><div>Not everything we need to accomplish needs to be put in the bylaws. We should only put into the bylaws what needs to be in the bylaws and put other areas into policies or other documents to abide by.</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">---</span></div><div><a href="http://rickert.net">rickert.net</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>Am 24.07.2015 um 09:07 schrieb Drazek, Keith &lt;<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>&gt;:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi Nigel,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I agree, but I took Thomas' comment to mean, 'the fewest bylaws changes necessary to accomplish our goals.' I also agree with that, particularly for WS1.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards,</span><br><span>Keith</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jul 24, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Nigel Roberts &lt;<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net">nigel@channelisles.net</a>&gt; wrote:&gt; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Why?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>That's like saying let's keep legislative changes to the minumum. It MAY be appropriate, but it may not.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It's not an end in itself.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 07/24/2015 07:44 AM, Thomas Rickert wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>.. Let's try to keep bylaw changes to a minimum.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thomas</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>