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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Co-chairs, and Colleagues,<br>
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      First, in my opinion, the question of whether a global public
      interest could exist admits a non-negative answer.<br>
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      Second, California requires of its applicant corporations for
      public benefit status that an interest which it determines is a
      public interest be pursued by the applicant.<br>
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      So, minimally, the Board's observation that one or more
      Recommendations from this group be reviewed for consistency with
      the public interest as represented to the state of California by
      the Corporation is contained within its use of "global public
      interest", and as I observed in my first remark, the statement of
      public interest offered to the state of California may not exhaust
      the standard of review.<br>
      <br>
      Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
      Eugene, Oregon<br>
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      On 12/24/15 5:57 AM, Thomas Rickert wrote:<br>
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      <div>please find below our note to the Advisors as discussed
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          <div class="">Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:</div>
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                class="">Von: </b></span><span style="font-family:
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                class="">Datum: </b></span><span style="font-family:
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                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size:
                  12pt;" class="">Dear Advisors,</span><font class=""
                  face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"> </font><br
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                <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
                  font-size: 12pt;" class="">as you will have noted, the
                  I</span><font class="" face="Calibri" size="3">CANN
                  Board has filed comments on our 3rd draft report a few
                  days back (attached). Our group thanks the Board for
                  these comments, <span style="text-indent: -24px;"
                    class="">some of which can be addressed during the
                    implementation of our work.</span></font></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;" class=""><font
                  class="" face="Calibri" size="3">However, there are a
                  few ar</font><span style="font-family: Calibri,
                  sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">eas where the
                  Board has raised concerns with respect to the Global
                  Public Interest.</span></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">These
                  are:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Recommendation
                  #1: Establishing an Empowered Community for Enforcing
                  Community Powers</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Recommendation
                  #4: Ensuring Community Engagement in ICANN
                  Decision-making: Seven New Community Powers</span> <br
                  class="">
                <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Budget
                  &amp; start plan</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Recommendation
                  #5: Changing Aspects of ICANN’s Mission, Commitments
                  and Core Values</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Recommendation
                  #6: Reaffirming ICANN’s Commitment to Respect
                  Internationally Recognized Human Rights as it Carries
                  Out its Mission</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Recommendation
                  #12: Committing to Further Accountability Work in Work
                  Stream 2</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
                font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size:
                  12pt;" class="">In its resolution of October 16th,
                  2014, the Board had clarified that it would test
                  whether final recommendations are in the Global Public
                  Interest.</span></div>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p
                  class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We
                  have asked the Board to provide information on what
                  definition of the Global Public Interest it has used
                  and what the rationale for their current assessment of
                  our recommendations is. The answer to that question is
                  still pending.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
                12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">However,
                  we are reaching out to you now as we want to
                  understand better the impact of Global Public Interest
                  as we continue to work on our final recommendations.
                  Our plan is to offer explanations in our final report
                  where we speak to the Global Public Interest and why
                  we are of the opinion that our recommendations in
                  their final form are in the Global Public Interest.</span><o:p
                  class=""></o:p></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size:
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                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We
                  would therefore appreciate your input at your earliest
                  convenience on</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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                    style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;
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                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""
                  lang="EN-US">suggested definition(s) of the Global
                  Public Interest that our group could use;</span></p>
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                  Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">2.
                  which of the recommendations in our 3rd report, if
                  any, give raise Global Public Interest concerns
                  according to your assessment; and</span></p>
              <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; font-size:
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                  you suggest we can resolve the Global Public Interest
                  issues, which are identified.</span></p>
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                  style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thank
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                  season,</span> <br class="">
                <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Mathieu
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