<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good evening:<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In other words, the Board loses the flexibility it currently has (and uses) to engage the GAC in that process without a formal Board vote. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This was not intended and must be corrected.</span></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Why?</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">More generally, this is an extraordinary debate among folk - whatever all their other merits - that have never been members of the GAC and have never been appointed to the ICANN Board. </span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Should the formal structures become so constraining - as a few CCWG participants appear to desire - then all that will have been achieved will be to thrust any serious issues between the Community, the Board and the GAC out of the designated procedures and into purely informal contexts. That would inevitably result in a serious loss of transparency, which was however the primary objective in the first place. There is a word for </span></font><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face">that.</a></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hey, Guys, let's get real … </span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">CW</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On 18 Dec 2015, at 17:29, Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br></div></body></html>