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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dear Co-Chairs and CCWG:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">As promised
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">on
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">the</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> call
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">currently occurring</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">below you will find a revised description of the waiver to be signed by directors as a pre-condition to service</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">,
narrowed to address concerns we</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Holly and I)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> discussed with ICANN-Legal and Jones Day</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">,
which were also echoed by participants on today’s call, i.e., that it would not be desirable to protect or encourage defamatory, malicious, or reckless statements about directors during the removal or recall process</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
As I mentioned on the call, the Board does not support any such waiver.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here’s
<span style="color:black">the current proposal</span> says now, in full:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">39. As a condition to being nominated by an AC, an SO, or the Nominating Committee and seated on the Board, each Director-nominee shall be required to sign an irrevocable letter agreement
that:</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Expresses a contractual commitment that: (1) Acknowledges that the nominating AC or SO, or, for directors appointed by the Nominating Committee,
the Empowered Community, has the right to remove the director from service at any time and for any reason through the processes set out in the Bylaws (as described below); (2) Confirms that service as a director does not establish any employment or other
relationship to ICANN, the Empowered Community, the ACs, the SOs, or the Nominating Committee, or the agents of any of them, that provides any due process rights related to termination of service as a director other than those specified in the Bylaws; and
(3) Waives any and all claims against, and releases from all liability, ICANN, the Empowered Community, the ACs, the SOs, the Nominating Committee, and all of<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>their agents, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>any other individuals participating in the removal process, arising from or in connection with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the removal process.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Provides a conditional irrevocable resignation from the Board that is automatically effective upon a final determination of removal through the
individual director removal process or the full board recall process upon communication of such decision to the Board (as set forth below). <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">In addition, ICANN shall indemnify and advance expenses of defending against any claim against the Empowered Community, the ACs, the SOs, the Nominating Committee, or the agents of
any of them for their good faith actions in seeking removal of a director or of the full Board.</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A narrower version of the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">waiver portion<span style="color:black"> could read</span> as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">(3) Waives claims against and releases from liability (a) ICANN and its directors, officers, and employees, and (b) the Empowered Community, the ACs, the SOs, the Nominating Committee,
and the Chairs or other individuals serving as executive officers of any of them, arising from statements made in good faith after reasonable due diligence as to factual accuracy, during the course of exercising any right or power, or performing any duty,
contemplated by the director removal or recall processes set forth in the Bylaws.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Happy to discuss, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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