<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bruce,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I agree with your presentation.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">However, you have exposed the flaw in ICANN Structure, rather than addressing it.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Membership would address the flaw. <br><br>Thus, would it not be better to create the new ICANN addressing flaws?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Regards.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Nigel Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net" target="_blank">nigel@channelisles.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm not sure I agree with this exactly as phrased by Bruce.<br>
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ICANN's Directors owe a fiduciary duty to the corporation. This is undeniable.<br>
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ICANN (the corporation) is established to lessen the burden of government and promote the global public interest in the operational stability of the Internet (Art 3).<br>
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ICANN operates for the benefit of the Internet Community as a whole (Art 4).<br>
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Whilst ICANN certainly owes a duty or obligation of some form "to the Internet community as a whole" (as per Art 4, above), I am not convinced that it is that of a fiduciary, or even the lesser standard of the tort duty of care: see as a starting point:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary</a><br>
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ICANN owes a fiduciary duty to the Internet community as a whole.<br>
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