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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Greg,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Well said, I agree completely. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Shatan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 29, 2016 12:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thomas Rickert<br>
<b>Cc:</b> accountability-cross-community@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Request for Clarification on Threshold Issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">In response to Thomas's note:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Thomas Rickert &lt;<a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net" target="_blank">thomas@rickert.net</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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below you find a quick summary of where we are on this with respect to our report:<br>
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- GAC is a decisional participant unless we get a clear signal (as from RSAC and SSAC) that they don't want to be one.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I had thought that GAC had to make a decision about whether or not to be a decisional participant.&nbsp; If what you say is true, GAC will
 be a decisional participant unless they come to a full consensus decision that are not a decisional participant.&nbsp; I hope that GAC will go one better than that, and affirm that they are a decisional participant and are committed to meaningful participation
 in the decisional mechanism of the EC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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- All decisional particants can vote yes, no, abstain or do nothing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I'm unclear whether there is any substantive difference between &quot;abstaining</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&quot;
 and &quot;doing nothing.&quot; &nbsp;It would be unfortunate if we had any decisional participant that was &quot;in&quot; because it could not decide to get out, and then &quot;did nothing&quot; because it could not decide to do anything else.&nbsp; We would then end up with de facto unanimity required
 where the threshold is 4.&nbsp; There may be no way to prevent that, but the way to reduce the likelihood of such an outcome would be to require each decisional participant to opt in.&nbsp; That is one of the reasons we need a decision from the GAC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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- If there is a change in structure, i.e. a decisional participants does not further want to be one, an SO / AC is closed down or if there is an addition, we need a bylaw change. This is what the group responded to the Board's wish to include percentages. The
 CCWG refused percentages as we need a bylaw change anyway if a change is taking place.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">I agree with this entirely -- if one of the 5 presumed participants opts out or closes down, &quot;we need a bylaw change.&quot; &nbsp;Unfortunately,
 the Proposal doesn't say that -- if it did, this request would not have been made.&nbsp; Instead the report says we &quot;may&quot; need a change (which also leaves open the possibility we &quot;may not&quot; need a change).&nbsp; We merely seek to clarify this understanding by changing
 &quot;may&quot; to &quot;shall&quot; (or &quot;must&quot; or &quot;will&quot;) to eliminate the unintended &quot;wiggle room&quot; that could result in</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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- Should the Board refuse to make / support a required bylaw change, we have the tools in our report.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Again I agree -- but we don't have a &quot;required&quot; bylaw change stemming from our proposal, because we have the word &quot;may&quot; and not the
 word &quot;shall/must/will.&quot; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We seek only to clarify that a bylaw change will be &quot;required' under these circumstances.</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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- Any clarification needed to that effect can be made during the implementation phase.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Why wait when we can nip this in the bud? If it's a mere clarification, then it should be noncontroversial.&nbsp; I fear that some who oppose
 this very much like the wiggle room the word &quot;may&quot; affords them, and will use it to oppose any such change if and when the time comes.&nbsp; Furthermore, it's far from clear how much control we will have during the implementation process in order to make such change.&nbsp;
 I recognize this is a bit messy and thus undesirable from a process management perspective -- but leaving open an option (no change) that was clearly unintended by the broad majority of the group is also undesirable.&nbsp; I think there's a very real chance we
 will only have 4 decisional participants, and we're better off preparing for that now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Greg</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">​</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks,<br>
Thomas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am 27.02.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Drazek, Keith:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Hi Thomas, Mathieu and Leon. I’m submitting the following on behalf of the undersigned members/participants
 from the GNSO:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Dear CCWG-Accountability Chairs,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">We are very concerned with the response of the Board to the request for clarification regarding the
 need to adjust the thresholds for the Empowered Community to exercise its powers if the number of decisional participants is less than 5 SOACs. Currently the text in Annex 1 and 2 regarding this possibility is ambiguous:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">“The thresholds presented in this document were determined based on this assessment. If fewer than five of ICANN’s SOs and ACs agree to be decisional Participants, these thresholds
 for consensus support may be adjusted. Thresholds may also have to be adjusted if ICANN changes to have more SOs or ACs.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">In our view, there is no question that the thresholds
<i>must</i> be adjusted if there are fewer than five decisional participants. We have acknowledged repeatedly and operated under the assumption that there should not be a requirement of unanimous support for the Empowered Community to exercise its powers. Yet,
 if there are less than five decisional participants, unless the thresholds are adjusted it would require unanimous support for the Empowered Community to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Reject a proposed Operating Plan/Strategic Plan/Budget;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Recall the entire Board of Directors; and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Reject an ICANN Board decision relating to reviews of IANA functions, including the triggering of any PTI separation process.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">These powers are central to ensuring that ICANN remains accountable to the Empowered Community. This
 matter is too critical to the primary purpose of the CCWG-Accountability proposal to remain unclear. As the Board has noted in its own formal comments, “Leaving this issue for future consideration raises the potential for renegotiation of the community thresholds.&nbsp;
 This potential for renegotiation adds a level of instability and a lack of predictability.”</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:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</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:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Although it has a superficial resemblance to the recent debate over thresholds in the GAC carve-out,
 we believe it is fundamentally different. There is a great distinction between an SO or AC
<b><i>choosing</i></b> to not participate, and an SO or AC being <b><i>blocked</i></b> from participation in a specific instance, as was the case in the case of the GAC carve-out. We were willing to accept a unanimous threshold for Board recall in the unique
 circumstances of the GAC carve-out, where the GAC was blocked from participation, but we believe firmly that if any SO or AC
<b><i>elects</i></b>, whether through a conscious decision or an inability to decide, to not participate, then the non-unanimity principle must be upheld.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">However, as we saw with the debate over the thresholds in the GAC carve-out, this could be a contentious
 issue. It is far better to resolve this matter now (and during the drafting of bylaws), prior to the official transfer of the proposal to NTIA, than to delay it when it could have significant negative ramifications on the transition through a failure to resolve
 it during the implementation phase. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Therefore, we respectfully request that the current text in Annex 1 and Annex 2 be edited to replace
 “may” with “shall” and add an additional explanatory clause:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">“The thresholds presented in this document were determined based on this assessment. If fewer than five of ICANN’s SOs and ACs agree to be decisional Participants, these thresholds
 for consensus support </span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:red">shall</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:red">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">be adjusted
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:red">to prevent the need for unanimous support among the decisional Participants to exercise any of the seven Community powers</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">.
 Thresholds may also have to be adjusted if ICANN changes to have more SOs or ACs.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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