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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks, Steve. Sorry for taking so long to reply. So many emails!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It’s true that the Member would need to approve any change to ICANN’s present status as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, since that would require
amending its Articles, but it might be clearer and simpler, as well as broader and more complete, to say “any change to ICANN’s Articles of Incorporation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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""> Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rosemary E. Fei<br>
<b>Cc:</b> accountability-cross-community@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Revised Fundamental Bylaws section for 2nd draft proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks Rosemary. I botched the text in the email when I pasted from a Track Changes doc. Sorry. The attached documents actually showed it this way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Any change to ICANN’s Articles of Incorporation would require approval by both Board and Members:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">“9. These Articles may be amended by the affirmative vote of at least two- thirds of the directors of the Corporation. When the Corporation has members, any such amendment must
be ratified by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the members voting on any proposed amendment.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Under the proposal for the Community Mechanism as Sole Member, the Member would need to approve any change to ICANN’s present status as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 5:23 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Steve DelBianco, "<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>"<br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: [CCWG-ACCT] Revised Fundamental Bylaws section for 2nd draft proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Setting those aside, here’s what I intended to say: once the Sole Member structure has been adopted by the Board into the Bylaws and ICANN therefore has member,
it would “require 2/3 vote of the Board and the vote of the Sole Member to approve any amendment to ICANN’s Articles of Incorporation.”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hope that’s helpful.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve DelBianco<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CCWG-ACCT] Revised Fundamental Bylaws section for 2nd draft proposal</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We displayed and discussed this document on CCWG call Tue 29-July. Circulating this just so we have it for Thursday’s doc review. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The only new <span style="background:yellow">text</span> arose from remarks by Holly and Rosemary earlier this week, regarding the Single Member voting:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Any change to ICANN’s A change to the Articles of Incorporation would require approval by both Board and Members:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow">Under the proposal for the would require 2/3 vote of the Board and 2/3 vote of the Community Mechanism as Sole Member, the Member would need to approve any change
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