<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,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes. I am sorry I missed it in the list. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please go ahead and answer whether ICANN has a designator model already.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">León</div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">El 06/10/2015, a las 1:48 a.m., Gregory, Holly <<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com" class="">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>> escribió:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Are you also certifying whether ICANN has a designator model now?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">GREGORY</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><br class="">Partner<br class=""><br class=""></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Sidley Austin LLP</span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><br class=""></span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">+1 212 839 5853<br class=""><a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com" title="Click to send email to Gregory, Holly" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">holly.gregory@sidley.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>León Felipe Sánchez Ambía [<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx" class="">mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 06, 2015 2:47 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gregory, Holly; Rosemary E. Fei<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sidley ICANN CCWG; ICANN-Adler; Thomas Rickert; Mathieu Weill; ACCT-Staff; <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a> (<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>)<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Questions certification<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Dear Holly, dear Rosemary,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We would like to certify the following questions to your teams:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">- <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">What are a director’s fiduciary duties to a California nonprofit public benefit corporation? What is the relationship between these duties and the mission of the corporation?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- </span>under ICANN's current structure, do SOs and ACs have legal rights to select directors in line with designator rights under the California statute?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><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?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">- What is the <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">availability of default judgments should the Board refuse to participate in an IRP?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" 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:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" 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><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" 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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" 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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Best regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">León, Thomas and Mathieu<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">****************************************************************************************************<br class="">This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential.<br class="">If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify us<br class="">immediately.<br class=""><br class="">****************************************************************************************************</p></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>