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<p dir="ltr">I tried parsing what you just said and it seem to be the same thing with what the board is asking. Leaving aside the word "agreed" in the first sentence it seem to imply that less than 4 can indeed spill the board if the IRP found it violates the bylaw. Isn't that what a number of us have been saying (nevermind that I personally have always being of the opinion that the "carve out" was not necessary in the first place).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Unless this is just English deficiency on my side, I think there is no difference between the 2 sentences you indicated. As the second sentence seem to confirm the first one. Otherwise it may be good to know what other time the threshold can be 3?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
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<div>The point is that we agreed that the threshold would be 4 where an IRP found there was no bylaws violation. That is not the same as agreeing that the only time the threshold would be 3 was if an IRP found a bylaws violation. </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, February 19, 2016 at 6:58 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Becky Burr <<a href="mailto:becky.burr@neustar.biz" target="_blank">becky.burr@neustar.biz</a>>, Jordan Carter <<a href="mailto:jordan@internetnz.net.nz" target="_blank">jordan@internetnz.net.nz</a>>, Samantha Eisner <<a href="mailto:Samantha.Eisner@icann.org" target="_blank">Samantha.Eisner@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Thomas Rickert <<a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net" target="_blank">thomas@rickert.net</a>>, Accountability Community <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [CCWG-ACCT] what the Board is objecting to here -<br>
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My apologies if I got it wrong. I tried to make it clear that I was recounting how I remembered it. I did see some of those messages, but I did not conclude that there was any agreement.<br>
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<div>I think your construction is not quite right Alan, which is understandable given how much of this takes place at 1 am.</div>
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<div>First of all, we had stable consensus on the carve out, which included adjusting the threshold, prior to 13 February when the Board issued its request for additional change on this point. </div>
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<div>Following Bruce’s email, on our call on 16 February <b>we agreed that the support of 4 members of the EC would be needed if an IRP found that the Board had
<i><font color="#ff0000">not</font></i> violated the Bylaws</b>. That’s quite clear in the transcript. The transcript does
<b>not</b> reflect agreement that an IRP must be brought in any or all cases. Because you cannot bring an IRP where there is no Bylaws violation, that would quite clearly exclude situations where the recall was not based on bylaws violations (however rare
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<div>Hours following that call there were some questions and concerns on the list, so I posted the following email:</div>
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<div><i>My support for the Board’s approach would be limited to cases where the community seeks to recall the Board because its implementation of GAC Advice violates the Bylaws or Articles. In that case, I think that an IRP is the most appropriate, least disruptive
approach. I can live with the notion that the community would respect the final determination of an IRP in such cases – and isn’t that what it means for the IRP to be binding?</i></div>
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<div><i>If the community seeks to dump the Board based on its implementation of GAC Advice, but where the justification for the use of this community power is something other than a violation of the Bylaws or Articles, then, in my view, the lower threshold
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<div><i><b>Bruce – I think we need clarification from you as to the Board’s intent</b>. One could read your proposal as an attempt to limit any use of the spill the Board power in response to the Board’s implementation to GAC Advice to situations where that
implementation amounts to a violation of the Bylaws/Articles. This reading would – at least theoretically – materially narrow the spill the board power. So I think Brett is right on the principle. But I also think the read I’ve proposed doesn’t really undermine
the Board’s goal either, inasmuch as I believe that the community will be rightly reluctant to spill the Board in response to an action/inaction that is not alleged to violate the Bylaws/Articles.</i></div>
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<div><i>I suspect there are some details to be worked out on how you resolve a dispute between the Board and the community on whether a spill the Board effort is based on an action/inaction that can be reviewed under the IRP, but I don’t think they are insurmountable.</i></div>
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<div>Bruce confirmed that the Board was, indeed, seeking the very broad reading of this proposal. We tried, through discussions on the list following the call to further accommodate the Board’s concern by clarifying that an IRP must be invoked where available.
Those further accommodations are reflected in the draft circulated nearly 48 hours ago. The Board has indicated it is still unhappy. And that provides the opportunity to unwind hard-won consensus. No good deed goes unpunished.</div>
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