<div dir="ltr">+1 to Grace - that is how I have interpreted the requirement being met, and the CWG Co-Chairs have agreed that it does...<div><br></div><div>J</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 August 2015 at 09:45, Grace Abuhamad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" target="_blank">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>Hi Robin, </div><div><br></div><div>The CWG-Stewardship chairs reviewed the requirements, as did our independent legal counsel, and both confirmed that the CCWG-Accountability had met their requirements. My understanding is that this is reflected in the “Fulfillment of Requirements” section, and reflected in the draft through the IRP and Community Mechanism. The text from the "Fulfillment of Requirements” section is as follows: </div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">As requested by the CWG-Stewardship, the community
can use the Independent Review process (see Section <span style="background:yellow">4</span>) to challenge a decision by the Board not
to implement a recommendation coming out of an IANA Function Review.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps, </div><div>Grace</div><div><br></div><span><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;BORDER-BOTTOM:medium none;BORDER-LEFT:medium none;PADDING-BOTTOM:0in;PADDING-LEFT:0in;PADDING-RIGHT:0in;BORDER-TOP:#b5c4df 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:medium none;PADDING-TOP:3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:50 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Accountability Cross Community <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Brenden Kuerbis <<a href="mailto:bkuerbis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bkuerbis@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [CCWG-ACCT] are we covered on oversight on board decisions wrt IFR recommendations<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>It has been suggested that our proposal is missing an important element (see below):</div><div><br></div><div>But what is missing from the CCWG draft (and specifically the community powers section) is the empowerment of the community to exercise oversight of ICANN board decisions with respect to recommendations resulting from an IFR, as identified below.<br></div><div> </div><div>From the transition proposal (pg 40), released by the ICG today [1]:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
2. Community Empowerment Mechanisms. The empowerment of the multistakeholder community to have the following rights with respect to the ICANN Board, the exercise of which should be ensured by the related creation of a stakeholder community / member group: </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
(a) The ability to appoint and remove members of the ICANN Board and to recall the entire ICANN Board; </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
(b) The ability to exercise oversight with respect to key ICANN Board decisions (including with respect to the ICANN Board’s oversight of the IANA functions) by reviewing and approving (i) ICANN Board decisions with respect to recommendations resulting from
an IFR or Special IFR and (ii) the ICANN budget; and <br>
(c) The ability to approve amendments to ICANN’s “fundamental bylaws,” as described below.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.ianacg.org/icg-files/documents/IANA-stewardship-transition-proposal-EN.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ianacg.org/icg-files/documents/IANA-stewardship-transition-proposal-EN.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this right? Is this covered in our report? I don't see it, but in the flurry of documents may not be looking at the right ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin</div></div></div></div></div></span></div>
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