<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Tijani,<div><br></div><div>Actually, take another look at the CCWG's draft proposal (below). It is very clear in our proposal that <b><i>only </i></b>the AC-SO who appoints a director does the removing. Where did you get the idea it was to be a wider-group decision?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><div><u>From p. 58 of CCWG 2nd draft proposal explaining Individual Board removal (relevant text in <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e81f13">RED</font> below):</u></div><div>
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ICANN Board is currently available only to the Board itself (though this will
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and can be exercised through a 75% vote of the Board. Today there is no
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removal of a Director before his or her fixed term comes to an end, with no
rules set as to limitations on such removal or requirements for a particular
cause for such removal. It is expected that this power would only be exercised
in cases of serious difficulty with a particular Director. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Numbering" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">The following process applies for
removing a Director appointed by an SO or AC:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A decision to start consideration of a
Director’s removal requires a call to do so, approved by a simple majority in
the SO or AC which originally appointed the director. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Where such a call to remove a Director meets the
required threshold is announced, within fifteen days a meeting of the ICANN
Community Forum (see Section 6.3 for the concept) will be convened. At that
meeting:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Chair of the forum must not be associated
with the petitioning SO or AC or with the Director involved;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Representatives of the appointing/removing SO or
AC must explain why they seek the Director’s removal; <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Director has the opportunity to reply and
set out his or her views; and <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">d)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Questions and answers can be asked of the
appointing/removing SO or AC and of the Director involved by all the other
participants in the forum<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Within fifteen days after the meeting of the
forum, <b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e81f13">the SO or AC which originally appointed the Director makes its decision
through its usual process. </font></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The threshold to cause the removal of the
director is 75% of the votes cast in the SO or AC which originally appointed
the Director.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If the threshold is met, then, as will be set
out in the bylaws, the Community Mechanism as Sole Member automatically
implements this decision, and the Director is removed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If no decision is made within fifteen days, the
process lapses and the director remains in place.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->No new call to consider the removal of that same
director can be made during the term they are serving on the Board following a
vote to remove them failing or no decision being made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="mso-element:footnote-list"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all">
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%">
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn1" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> If
the CCWG-Accountability’s Single Member Model is implemented, the Board could
only remove directors for causes specified in the California corporate code –
see the memo from 23 April 2015 entitled “<a href="https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52890082/sidley%20Legal%20Assessment%20-%20Executive%20Summary%2C%20Summary%20Chart%20and%20Revised%20Governance.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1430068991000&api=v2"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Legal Assessment: Executive Summary, Summary
Chart and Revised Governance Chart</span></a>”. For further detail on legal
advice provided, see Appendix G.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn2"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn2" href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Today
there are escalation paths, up to and including removal from the Board, for
Board member violations of the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest
Policies, but the Bylaws do not currently require such a violation to occur
prior to Board removal.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<!--EndFragment--><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Oct 8, 2015, at 11:30 PM, Tijani BENJEMAA wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Robin,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You are right that in California legislature, it is the right of the Member/designator to recall the appointed director. The CCWG proposal was for a sole member, and it is the right of this sole member to recall the directors, not any SO or AC. The sole member being the community as a whole.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think it is useless that I repeat the several reasons for which I believe it is for the benefit of the organization and the global public interest that the recall should be done by the community not a single SO or AC. I will only mention the benefit of treating all the board directors on an equal footing should they be appointed by an SO or AC or by the NomCom.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 9 oct. 2015 à 04:47, Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" class="">robin@ipjustice.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class="">Hi Chris,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The CCWG proposal (with which I agree on this point) provides that the specific SO/AC who appoints a board member has the power to recall (not the community-at-large). That is the accountability tool which the California legislature provided by statute to hold board members accountable -- and it is the norm in most organizations of these types. Restricting such a right would be a rare exception in practice. Are there examples of other nonprofit public benefit organizations who have restricted members / designators rights of board recall in such a way? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Attempts to restrict members / designators rights to recall the board member which they appoint carry a heavy burden of demonstrating why the California legislature got it wrong in creating this accountability tool - and why the vast majority of other organizations who do provide such statutory recall rights have not been destroyed by the power as ICANN claims will happen if this common ordinary power were to exist at ICANN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Robin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 8, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Chris Disspain wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">Hi Robin,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What’s your position on whether it should be the electing SO/AC that can recall or a wider group?<br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(148, 67, 251); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; " class="">Cheers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(148, 67, 251); min-height: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; " class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(148, 67, 251); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; " class="">Chris</div>
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Oct 2015, at 10:39 , Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" class="">robin@ipjustice.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Not sure I can make the call tomorrow, so I'll state my position against restrictions to individual director recall rights now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Considering the only public comment calling for limitations on the community's right to recall the individual board members was from the board itself, and the consensus has consistently been for NOT restricting recall rights, but for providing rationales for recalls, I don't understand why we are forced to continue to beat this dead horse. If two public comment periods have not been enough to create anything close to consensus to restrict the community's board recall rights, let's put this issue to bed and focus on the issues where the community is far more divided.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Robin<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 8, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Jordan Carter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the proposed agenda for our next call: Friday 9 October at 17h30 UTC for up to two hours.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Could all those proposing documents for this meeting please circulate them ASAP, with an email subject line that identifies what your document is?</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">1. Review of Agenda</b><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">2. Second review of comments analysis:</b><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a) Budget power</div><div class="">b) Affirmation of Commitments</div><div class="">c) Community Forum</div><div class="">d) Community Mechanism as Sole Member / The Model</div><div class="">e) Recall of ICANN Board</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">3. Approach to documenting our work for 12-Oct deadline</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">4. Any Other Business</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please advise any further / other agenda items...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks,</div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small" class="">Jordan Carter<br class=""><br class="">Chief Executive <br class=""><b class="">InternetNZ</b><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small" class=""><br class="">+64-4-495-2118 (office) | +64-21-442-649 (mob)<br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a> <br class="">Skype: jordancarter<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small" class="">Web: <a href="http://www.internetnz.nz/" target="_blank" class="">www.internetnz.nz</a> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small" class=""><br class=""><i class="">A better world through a better Internet </i></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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