<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thomas,</div><div>It is more political than legal </div><div>Please look at dome if the example that I have provided.</div><div>As soon as you enter in the domain if " Public" you entered in the domain of government and that push you to political sphere.</div><div>Moreover, the legal views provide the understanding of individual legal expert thus very probably would not get public support.</div><div>Further problem would how ICANN would interprets that potential definition and how it uses that.</div><div>You push the community to a dangerous area as ICANN could reject many accountability provision using such un agreed potential definition .</div><div>CCWG must clearly warns ICANN that such authority to reject an accountability measure on the ground of vague and non agreed definition of GPI will not be given to them as they could reject any thing that properly and legally limit them them using that undefined term</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kavouss </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 28 Dec 2015, at 03:39, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yes, Kavouss, I agree entirely. But at least it added some levity to the process. Asking experts in corporate law to define GPI, as if that were a legal rather
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