<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Forwarding for transparency. </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:acct-staff-bounces@icann.org">acct-staff-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of Holly Gregory <<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 10:39 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Mathieu Weill <<a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>>, Thomas Rickert <<a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net">thomas@rickert.net</a>>, 'León Felipe Sánchez Ambía' <<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Sidley        ICANN CCWG <<a href="mailto:sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com">sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com</a>>, ACCT-Staff <<a href="mailto:acct-staff@icann.org">acct-staff@icann.org</a>>, ICANN-Adler <<a href="mailto:ICANN@adlercolvin.com">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a>>, "Rosemary E. Fei (<a href="mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>)" <<a href="mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Acct-Staff] Annexes 1-6<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><!-- Template generated by Exclaimer Mail Disclaimers on 09:39:31 Sunday, 14 February 2016 --><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style type="text/css">P.f85eb409-fef9-4230-a582-d02cd111ec6e {
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="f85eb409-fef9-4230-a582-d02cd111ec6e"></p><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt">Dear Co-Chairs and Staff:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt">Attached please find very minor comments on Annexes 1-6 (Word in tracked changes and PDF indicating the changes). In addition to the marked changes, there are several changes to be made to the graphics<b><i></i></b>that we have noted previously and Bernie has acknowledged. Later we will send a note just relating to the graphics changes.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">A couple of notes on Annex 5</span></u></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">We note that there are several references to the Picket Fence side-by-side comparison being “attached for reference” but we have not seen the attachment. If this comparison is to be
attached to the Final Proposal, please send it for our review and ignore our suggested deletions of these references.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">We also note that Section 4 (pp. 12-16) does not indicate changes between the Third Draft Proposal and the Final Proposal; the focus seems to be on changes between the Second Draft Proposal
and the Third Draft Proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Also, the chart in this section indicates changes between the 3<sup>rd</sup> Draft Proposal and the Existing Bylaws; should the references to the 3<sup>rd</sup> Draft Proposal be replaced
with the “Final Proposal”? In any case, consider moving this chart and the lead-in language above the heading “Changes from the Third Draft Proposal…” as these are cumulative edits, not just those made since the Third Draft Proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Consider replacing the chart beginning on page 15 with a chart indicating any changes from the 3<sup>rd</sup> Draft Proposal to the Final Proposal. (It is unclear what the “3<sup>rd</sup>
Draft Supplement” is referring to.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black"> It is unclear why the current bylaws column has text in red (indicating language changes).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Paragraphs 16, 44, 49 (the 2nd Commitment): Adler emailed Becky Burr yesterday to confirm that the correct phrasing is “the neutral and judgment free administration of the technical
DNS” instead of “its neutral and judgment free administration of the DNS,” as Alan Greenberg proposed on Call #83. We have not yet seen a response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Paragraph 49: Staff should add paragraph numbers within the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Annex 6:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black">Paragraph numbering should start at the beginning of Section 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <b>J.
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