<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Holly, dear Rosemary,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would like to certify the following questions to your teams:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">What </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">are</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class=""> a director’s fiduciary duties</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class=""> to a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">California nonprofit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">public benefit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">corporat</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">ion</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;" class="">? What is the relationship between these duties and the mission of the corporation?</span></div><div class=""><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </font>under ICANN's current structure, do SOs and ACs have legal rights to select directors in line with designator rights under the California statute?</div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -24px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Is there any means under Californian Law that would allow to subject the exercise of fiduciary duties to objective and controllable standards? For example, could the following or similar means be acceptable and usable under Californian law:</div><br class="">· concretizing these fiduciary duties in the Bylaws;<br class=""><br class="">· subjecting their correct interpretation to arbitration;<br class=""><br class="">· imposing special requirements on the rationale needed to be provided if they are used to override community decisions;<br class=""><br class="">· imposing extra-supermajorities in the Board in order to being able to invoke such duties?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- What is the <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">availability of default judgments should the Board refuse to participate in an IRP?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">We would also like to ask you to kindly point us to the memos in which the questions raised by Rafael Pérez Galindo in an e-mail as follows:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">"In conclusion, I kindly ask the Co-Chairs to forward these questions to the CCWG legal advisors about (1) ability, (2) legal implications and (3) liabilities of governments if they took part as voting members in the community mechanism to be deployed under CA jurisdiction. An answer should be provided for the three models under discussion (SMM, Single designator and MEM)."</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, we would like to ask you to begin drafting bylaws that include the AoC in them so we can continue with the bylaw drafting process we have been waiting to begin on ICANN legal’s side with no success so far.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let us know whether you need any clarification on the certified questions. Also please kindly provide an estimate date of delivery so we can keep track and update our Group.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">León, Thomas and Mathieu</div>
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