<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I request certification of these issues as well.<div><br></div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 5, 2015, at 9:47 PM, Jordan Carter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">So do I.<div><br></div><div>Best </div><div>Jordan <span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, 6 October 2015, Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I support certifying these matters to our counsel for advice.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Gregory, Holly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','holly.gregory@sidley.com');" target="_blank">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Cc:</b> Rosemary E. Fei (<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rfei@adlercolvin.com');" target="_blank">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>); Sidley ICANN CCWG; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ICANN@adlercolvin.com');" target="_blank">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a><br>
</span><b>Subject:</b> RE: certification of legal issues requested<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear Co-Chairs, <br>
Consider whether to certify to us the question of whether under ICANN's current structure
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SOs and ACs have legal rights to select directors in line with designator rights under the California statute. Holly and Rosemary.
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</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><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""> Gregory, Holly<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 05, 2015 09:38:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mathieu.weill@afnic.fr');" target="_blank">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','thomas@rickert.net');" target="_blank">
thomas@rickert.net</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','leonfelipe@sanchez.mx');" target="_blank">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ccwg-accountability5@icann.org');" target="_blank">ccwg-accountability5@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rosemary E. Fei (<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rfei@adlercolvin.com');" target="_blank">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>); Sidley ICANN CCWG;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ICANN@adlercolvin.com');" target="_blank">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> certification of legal issues requested</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Co-Chairs
</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Based on much discussion and a fair degree of confusion evident in the email exchange, we request that you consider certifying the following question
to us</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-left:1.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What <span style="color:black">
are</span> a director’s fiduciary duties<span style="color:black"> to a </span>California nonprofit
<span style="color:black">public benefit </span>corporat<span style="color:black">ion</span>? What is the relationship between these duties and the mission of the corporation?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In addition, we note that Sam Eisner recently provided a note on the email regarding the availability of default judgments should the Board refuse
to participate in an IRP. We have a different view and would like you to certify that question to us.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We note as a general matter that we are not able to provide answers to legal questions unless certified but ICANN Legal of course has no such limits.
It does put us in a difficult position when we don’t agree, since some may take our silence as an indication of agreement.
</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kind regards,
</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Holly and Rosemary </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <b>J. GREGORY</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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