<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dear Brett</div><div>Once again I have not made any proposal at all </div><div>GAC participation is well addressed in the proposal .</div><div>Pls kindly do not misinterpret me and pls do not advocate something that you want to say on my behalf</div><div>I have no comments to the CCWG AS CURRENTLY WRITTEN.</div><div>I hope this clarified the natter twice</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kavouss</div><div>.</div><div> <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 1 Mar 2016, at 17:37, Schaefer, Brett <<a href="mailto:Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org">Brett.Schaefer@heritage.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kavouss,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am mildly surprised that you, as someone who has been very protective of the right of the GAC to make its own decisions, is not upset with the determination
by the CCWG to make GAC a decisional participant by default before it has actually made this decision for itself.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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""> <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kavouss Arasteh<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 01, 2016 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mathieu Weill; Thomas Rickert; León Felipe Sánchez Ambía<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a><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">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yo are too worried about something that we still do not know how it happens<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The text approriate and clearly mention that if the No of Decision Making SO and AC changed the threshold should be adjusted
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is more than sufficient.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">People need to refrain concentrating/ focussing on a particular AC nor envisage all possible senarios.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are not wtritting Bylaws at this stage .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is ample time and competent individuals to look at the matter once happened.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let us discontinue this counterproductive discussion<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2016-03-01 16:32 GMT+01:00 Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Sorry, wrong. The assumption has been made and it is the same as the assumption that was made in the Third, Second and First Draft Reports. GAC is going to be listed in the fundamental
bylaws as a decisional participant in the Empowered Community. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The only way that could change would be if GAC advised it did not wish to do so. Same with any other group.<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Which they haven’t done yet. Ergo, my statement below was correct.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On 1 March 2016 at 13:16, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu" target="_blank">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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