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Paul,<br>
<br>
that's not what I understood at all. The CWG IANA proposal along
with the overall proposal that has gone through the ICG is what's
going to be sent to NTIA. The CCWG Accountability is a separate
process that has NOTHING to do with NTIA apart from a small part of
the CCWG's work that has to feed into the CWG's work. But the CCWG's
work has to go through the Board first and the Board has every right
to veto it, if it feels the proposal is incompatible with the public
interest.<br>
<br>
I think people are really getting confused here.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/10/2015 19:59, Paul Rosenzweig
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jordan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This
is a magnificent effort for which you are to be commended.
I have two modest amendments to your timeline to make – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">First,
you note the testimony before the Senate in February 2015.
I think it is worth noting the express commitment from the
CEO of ICANN: Senator Thune asked whether the ICANN Board
would “send a proposal to NTIA that lessens the Board’s
power or authority?” Fadi Cheade responded, “We will if the
community and the stakeholders present us with a proposal.
We will give it to NTIA, and we committed already that we
will not change the proposal, that if we have views on that
proposal, we should participate with the community. Once
that proposal comes from our stakeholders, we will pass it
on to NTIA as is.” Exchange available at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-September/005263.html"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-September/005263.html">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-September/005263.html</a></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Second,
you note the July 2015 House testimony of A/S Strickling and
CEO Cheade and say that “no objections” were made to the
idea of membership. That is true, as far as it goes, but I
find another exchange at that hearing far more significant
to your story:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">According
to Assistant Secretary Strickling’s testmony, “ICANN has
indicated that it expects to receive both the ICG transition
and CCWG accountability proposals at roughly the same time
and that it will forward them promptly and without
modification to NTIA.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I
read these two items as reflecting a commitment by ICANN to
Congress and to the NTIA that they will forward the CCWG-A
proposals “without modification” or “as is” to the NTIA when
delivered by the CCWG. A fair reading of subsequent
statements by the Chair of the Board (your redline FNs 40
and 45) is that ICANN’s testimony to Congress and its
promise the NTIA (reflected in Strickling’s testimony) are
no longer operative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From
this I draw the same conclusions you have drawn – which is
why I think this particular episode is worth noting. It
also makes me wonder whether/if the CEO intends to revise
his testimony.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Again,
a strong +1 for putting in one place a useful history that
bears directly on the issues at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Paul
Rosenzweig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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+1 (202) 329-9650<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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paul.rosenzweig1066<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
Jordan Carter [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz">mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Accountability Cross Community
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org"><accountability-cross-community@icann.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CCWG-ACCT] Blog post on the Accountability
work headed to Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hi
all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Apologies
for the interruption to your inbox. I've been doing
a bit of work trying to make sense of all the events
in the ICANN accountability debate. I wrote up a
chronology of that, which is available attached to
this post. A blog post with my reflections is
below. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Whatever
part of the community you are from, and whatever
your view on the substance of the debates we are
having in the CCWG, I hope you can stand up in
support of the multistakeholder model at this
challenging moment. There is a lot at stake if this
accountability effort fails, and the risk of that is
not high but it is increasing. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See
many of you in Dublin next week!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jordan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<h1
style="mso-margin-top-alt:30.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:22.8pt;font-size:2.6rem"><span
style="font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm
B",serif;color:black">ICANN Accountability - the
chronology and Dublin thoughts</span><span
style="font-family:"Gotham Rounded SSm
B",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">9 October -
at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://internetnz.nz/blog/icann-accountability-chronology-and-dublin-thoughts"
target="_blank">https://internetnz.nz/blog/icann-accountability-chronology-and-dublin-thoughts</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">You’ve
probably had an experience in your life of being part
of a difficult or complicated project – sometimes
things go into a blur, or after months or years you
find it hard to remember the order of significant
events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Well, the
debate regarding ICANN’s accountability is nothing if
not complicated (not to say difficult!). I’ve been a
participant in it as a member of the Working Group
representing country-code domains since December 2014,
and even over not quite a year, things get a bit
blurry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">To help me,
and possibly you, I decided to pull together a short
chronology of some of the key milestones. Dates of
proposals, significant moments in the project, and so
on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">You can
review (and critique) the chronology here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/2015-10-09-ICANN-accty-chrono.pdf"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">.pdf</span></a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://internetnz.nz/sites/default/files/2015-10-09-ICANN-accty-chrono.docx"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">.docx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">I didn’t
expect that seeing this story in one short place would
trigger some new insights, or remind me of some old
ones, but it did. Here are some of them:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">Astonishing progress:</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif"> since the end of last
year, and the demise of ICANN’s resistance to a
community-led accountability process, the Cross
Community Working Group (CCWG) has made huge
progress. It assessed previous suggested
accountability mechanisms; built requirements for a
new settlement; devised models that could deliver;
took feedback in good faith and worked together to
overcome problems exposed in public debate. The
Second Draft Proposal of the group is workable,
though it does not enjoy consensus in the ICANN
community yet.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">Consistent resistance
and delay:</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif"> the powers-that-be at
ICANN have resisted community-driven accountability
reforms throughout this process. The multi-month
delay to establishing the CCWG speaks volumes. The
group’s work would have concluded next week in
Dublin if we’d had the few more months back in 2014.
I say that not to lament it, but to make it clear
where responsibility lies for the current time
pressure. Hint: the CCWG isn’t responsible.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">The rightness of
multistakeholderism: </span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">the community has
followed a true multistakeholder process.
Compromise, diligence, thoroughness and a
willingness to compromise and think outside the box
– all these have been central to the work of the
group. That work process is hard to maintain and has
been seriously challenged by the ICANN Board
alleging a right to insert “red lines” into part of
the debate – on the critical matters of
enforcement. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">Those interventions place
the credibility of the multistakeholder process at
risk. In doing so, the ICANN Board isn’t only
putting the accountability reform process under
pressure it doesn’t need, it is delaying the group’s
ability to complete its task (others have more
forceful views - see the note by William Currie, an
Advisor to the CCWG appointed by the Public Experts
Group last year, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/2015-October/006410.html"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#FF007A;text-decoration:none">here</span></a>).
The follow on consequence: the IANA Stewardship
transition itself is delayed, a consequence only a
very few people would celebrate (and I am not one of
them). </span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo2"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">Proof of need:</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif"> looking over the short
history of the current debate gives ample evidence
of why the reforms demanded by the community are
required. Without the spur provided by the IANA
Stewardship transition, this opportunity would never
have opened up. We should be grateful to the Obama
administration for the chance provided to build a
long term, responsible framework for ICANN
accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:#2D3031;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.9pt;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo2"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif">Some welcome
flexibility:</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif"> a year ago, if you’d
thought you would hear ICANN saying it would welcome
binding arbitration, the ability to remove Board
directors, a community right of veto in bylaws
changes – many would have stared at you and laughed.
If you’d suggested a community group working in open
multistakeholder ways could deliver a work output
the quality the CCWG has matched, the same stares
and laughs. But both have happened. Things have
moved.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Everyone
involved with or watching this process will have
different insights, or may agree happily or disagree
sharply with mine. I offer them up in public as part
of my own commitment to accountability: it is
reasonable for people involved in the conversation to
share their thinking. In any case, my own thought
processes work best with dialogue – not with solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">ICANN is on
the verge of historic, meaningful and positive reform.
The Numbers and Protocols communities, watching this
process through gritted teeth and very keen for the
transition to go ahead, can hopefully celebrate what
is happening. With ICANN having a curious dual role
for the Names community (policy forum and IANA
functions operator), there has been no alternative to
making accountability improvements now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">(To my
technical community friends - if there’s any doubt in
your mind about why we need change – review the
chronology, remember the pushback, remember what you
guys faced early this year.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">We’re all
close to the end of the debate. You can sense it –
proposals are crystallising, timeframes are
compressing, volunteers are at the end of reasonable
commitments of time and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">The
imperatives now are to see things through: to stick
with the multistakeholder process that listens to all
perspectives but gives nobody a right of veto; the
accountability framework the community requires to
accept the transition going ahead; and the changes to
ICANN’s culture that will flow from a new
accountability settlement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Dublin is a
week away. The elephant in the room (the CCWG’s
proposal and the ICANN Board’s counterproposal for the
way to crystallise accountability powers) will need to
be resolved, or eaten, or thrown in the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">My preference
is of course for the product of the multistakeholder
process, the model the CCWG has developed in public
and with the involvement of all stakeholders. But
unlike some others, I am not proclaiming bottom lines
on any of the “how” – it is the “what,” the
requirements and ability to meet them, that matter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">The “what” is
ensuring the Internet community, able to organise
through ICANN’s open groupings, can hold a corporation
with hundreds of staff, hundreds of millions of
dollars, tight links with the American government, a
monopoly ability to extract rents from the domain name
industry, and a natural institutional desire to be as
free of restraint as it can – can hold all that to
account, given the huge imbalance of power, knowledge,
resources that tilt the playing field of
accountability entirely in ICANN’s favour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Beyond the
"elephant," there are lots of other details that need
to be sorted out. It all matters – NTIA have been
clear the proposal has to be bullet proof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">In the end
though, if there isn’t an accountability settlement
that achieves consensus, then there isn’t going to be
a proposal bullet proof or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">No
accountability proposal – no IANA Stewardship
Transition proposal. No transition proposal – no
transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">No
transition? All those risks the transition is designed
to head off come back to life. And the
multistakeholder approach discredited to boot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Those are the
stakes on the table as we head to Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.9pt"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Gotham
Rounded SSm B",serif;color:#2D3031">Two final
thoughts: where there’s a will there’s a way. And as
an old high-school teacher used to say to me, “not
easy, not optional.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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