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<div class="">please find attached the updated document on Recommendation 4. This includes language offered by our lawyers for para.39.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">You will remember there was a concern expressed that the waiver to be signed by the Directors should not lead to a situation where the Director is defamed, e.g. when unfounded allegations are made that the Director
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">"As to the extreme example you pose regarding defamation, the waiver that we are suggesting is unlikely to be viewed as absolute. A court would likely view it through a lens of equity in relation to the specific
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<div class="">Also, we have included the requirement for a comprehensive and written rationale for Board member removal and the requirement for a dialogue with the Director (see para. 41).</div>
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<div class="">Thomas, Mathieu, León</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Mathieu Weill <<a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 3:02 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[CCWG-ACCT] Recommendation 4 - power to remove Individual Board director - 1st reading conclusions<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please find below the main conclusions of our deliberations during call #74. The updated document is attached.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">a. to mitigate risk of litigation in case of Board removal, pre-service letters for Board members could be required (see paragraph 39 page 9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">b. a written rationale will be offered very early in the process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">c. Lawyers are tasked to provide adequate language to provide adequate direction for implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">POST MEETING NOTE : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> This version includes edits to incorporate comments from the Icann Board (section 3c – page 12 of the Icann Board comment) that were not included in the previous version (thanks to Kavouss for drawing
our attention to this). Each of these comments were considered as useful directions for implementation. (see paragraphs 41 and 48)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2<sup>nd</sup> reading is planned during next Tuesday’s call.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mathieu WEILL <br>
AFNIC - directeur général <br>
Tél: +33 1 39 30 83 06 <br>
<a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr"><span style="color:blue">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</span></a><br>
Twitter : @mathieuweill <br>
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