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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chairs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you. It seems to me that these statements at the conclusion of Rec 1 and 2 don’t accurately reflect the substance of the proposal:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rec 1:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">31 NTIA will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization
solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">• Retaining decision-making based on consensus rather than voting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">• Maintaining the advisory role of governments in the SO and AC structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">61 NTIA will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an inter-governmental organization
solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">• Retaining decision-making based on consensus rather than voting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">• Maintaining the advisory role of governments in the SO and AC structure, including the GAC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">• Enabling all interested stakeholders to join consultations through SOs and ACs or through the Community Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In fact, the decisional model does expressly contemplate voting, i.e. tallying support or opposition among the decisional participants with specified thresholds,
to climb the escalation ladder and exercise community powers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Moreover, the GAC is now a participant in the Empowered Community (albeit with the carve out) and the advisory role has been altered, not maintained, by defining
GAC consensus and elevating the Board threshold to reject GAC consensus advice to 60 percent. These are significant changes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Brett
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bernard Turcotte<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 12, 2016 7:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Accountability Cross Community<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: FW: CCWG - recs 1,2 and 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b>Grapsas, Rebecca</b> <<a href="mailto:rebecca.grapsas@sidley.com">rebecca.grapsas@sidley.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:28 PM<br>
Subject: FW: CCWG - recs 1,2 and 11<br>
To: Bernard Turcotte <<a href="mailto:turcotte.bernard@gmail.com">turcotte.bernard@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: Sidley ICANN CCWG <<a href="mailto:sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com">sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com</a>>, ICANN-Adler <<a href="mailto:ICANN@adlercolvin.com">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a>>, "Greeley, Amy E." <<a href="mailto:AGreeley@sidley.com">AGreeley@sidley.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a name="1288874151__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Bernie,</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Attached please find minor proofing/conforming changes on Annexes 1, 2 and 11. Most of the edits
to Annex 1 were provided on January 31 but had not been incorporated. If possible, it would be great if these could be reflected in the final version to be distributed for review. We also noticed that Annex 3 did not incorporate our edits sent on January
31, 2016; these are pasted again below for your convenience. If you would prefer that we prepare a markup of Annex 3, please send us a Word version. Many thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Annex 3</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Global</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“<s><span style="color:red">c</span></s><u><span style="color:#0070C0">C</span></u>ommunity
<s><span style="color:red">p</span></s><u><span style="color:#0070C0">P</span></u>ower” or “<s><span style="color:red">c</span></s><u><span style="color:#0070C0">C</span></u>ommunity
<s><span style="color:red">p</span></s><u><span style="color:#0070C0">P</span></u>owers”
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Summary (p. 1)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“(ICANN)<u><span style="color:#0070C0">
</span></u>have a single…”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“Any changes to Fundamental Bylaws require approval from both the ICANN Board and
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">the Empowered Community</span></u><s><span style="color:red">community</span></s> as outlined in…”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 1 (p. 2), Paragraph 18 (p. 5)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">:
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“The <u>
<span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community for enforcing Community Powers,</span></u><s><span style="color:red">Community Mechanism as the Sole Designator Model</span></s> including the
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">role of sole designator of ICANN’s Directors,</span></u><s><span style="color:red">the right of inspection granted to Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community
</span></s>as described in Recommendation 1.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“The process for amending Fundamental Bylaws and/or Articles of Incorporation<u><span style="color:#0070C0">, and for approving ICANN’s sale or other disposition of all or substantially
all of ICANN’s assets,</span></u> as described in Recommendation 3.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.75in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">“The PTI Governance and Customer Standing Committee (CSC) structures, also required by the CWG-Stewardship</span><s><span style="color:red">’s</span></s><span style="color:black"> Proposal.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“The right<u><span style="color:#0070C0">s</span></u> of investigation
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">and inspection</span></u> (as described in <s><span style="color:red">Section 3 of Annex 01 -</span></s> Recommendation #1: Establishing an Empowered Community for Enforcing Community Power)<u><span style="color:#0070C0">.</span></u>”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 4 (p. 2)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “Today, ICANN Bylaws can be changed by a resolution of the Board upon a 2/3
<s><span style="color:red">majority </span></s>vote<u><span style="color:#0070C0"> of all of the Directors</span></u>. The CCWG-Accountability believes that the set of key Bylaws fundamental to ICANN’s stability and operational continuity and essential for
the community’s decision<s><span style="color:red">s-</span></s>rights should be given additional protection from changes by requiring
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community </span></u><s><span style="color:red">community</span></s> approval of any amendments.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 5 (p. 3)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “By sharing the authority to authorize changes between the ICANN Board and the
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community </span></u><s><span style="color:red">ICANN community</span></s> (organized through
<s><span style="color:red">its</span></s> <u><span style="color:#0070C0">participating</span></u> Supporting Organizations (SOs) and Advisory Committees (ACs)<u><span style="color:#0070C0">,</span></u>
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">the “Decisional Participants” </span></u>in the Empowered Community<u><span style="color:#0070C0">, as</span></u> outlined in Recommendation #1…).”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 11 (p. 4, graphic)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: Remove the “Sidley/Adler Note,” but we note that our comments on the graphic
have not been incorporated into the latest draft. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In the graphic, for the box on the lower right, we recommend adding “(3/4 MAJORITY)” after “REQUIRES ICANN BOARD.” We also recommend addressing the Articles of Incorporation in a separate
graphic under the section titled “Articles of Incorporation.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 12 (p. 4)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “The
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community </span></u><s><span style="color:red">community</span></s> approves the addition, amendment, or removal of the Fundamental Bylaw
<s><span style="color:red">by using its power as an Empowered Community to approve the change</span></s>…”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 13 (p. 4)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “If the addition, amendment, or removal of the Fundamental Bylaw is agreed upon by
both the ICANN Board and the <u><span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community </span>
</u><s><span style="color:red">community</span></s>:”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 16 (p. 5)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “The CCWG-Accountability
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">recommends</span></u><s><span style="color:red">suggests</span></s> that only critical aspects of the ICANN Bylaws be classified as Fundamental Bylaws to avoid introducing unnecessary rigidity into ICANN’s structures. The CCWG-Accountability
concluded that <u><span style="color:#0070C0">recommending</span></u><s><span style="color:red">suggesting</span></s> that all changes…”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 26 (p. 6)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “…a provision will need to be added to the Articles
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">of Incorporation</span></u> requiring Empowered Community approval…”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 30 (p. 7)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “<s><span style="color:red">Through the</span></s>
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">The</span></u> Empowered Community<s><span style="color:red">, SOs and ACs</span></s> would have to
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">affirmatively consent</span></u> <s><span style="color:red">give positive assent</span></s> to any change proposed and adopted by the ICANN Board before the amendment could become legally effective, as part of a joint decision
process between the ICANN Board and the <u><span style="color:#0070C0">Empowered Community
</span></u><s><span style="color:red">community</span></s>.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 32 (p. 7)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “Such changes require a high degree of
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">support from the Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community</span></u><s><span style="color:red">community assent</span></s>, as the purpose of this power is to make changing Fundamental Bylaws or the Articles of Incorporation
possible only with very wide support from the community.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 34 (p. 7)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “Clarified
<u><span style="color:#0070C0">the </span></u>process for change<u><span style="color:#0070C0">s</span></u> of Articles of Incorporation to be similar to process for changes to Fundamental Bylaws<u><span style="color:#0070C0">, as well as the process for approving
ICANN’s sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of ICANN’s assets</span></u>.”</span>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paragraph 36 (p. 8)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">: “ICANN Board: Community rights regarding the ability to appoint/remove Directors of
the ICANN Board<s><span style="color:red">,</span></s> and recall the entire Board.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Bernard Turcotte<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 09, 2016 06:27:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gregory, Holly; Rosemary E. Fei; ACCT-Staff (<a href="mailto:acct-staff@icann.org" target="_blank">acct-staff@icann.org</a>); Burr, Becky; Cheryl Langdon-Orr; Jordan Carter; León Felipe Sánchez Ambía; Mathieu Weill; Steve DelBianco; Thomas Rickert
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<b>Subject:</b> CCWG - recs 1,2 and 11</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">had to modify these per the results today for rec 11.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">In order to give you a leg up I thought I would forward these before the final report as they should be 99%+ stable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I have attached TC from a clean of your accepted comments.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hope that is ok.<o:p></o:p></p>
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