<p dir="ltr">The statement says "...nothing in the *preceding* sentence...."</p>
<p dir="ltr">The word preceding refers to the sentence prior to that which talks about regulation and it's simply buttressing that first sentence by saying because "ICANN does not hold any governmentally authorized regulatory authority" hence it does not have the authority to regulate (confirming the phrase used in the first sentence "ICANN shall not regulate...")</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2016 12:14 a.m., "Greg Shatan" <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">That doesn't work. "Regulatory authority" is not the same as "regulations." So "such regulations" can't refer back to "regulatory authority.' It can only refer back to an earlier reference to some type of "regulations."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
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On 29 Apr 2016 6:52 p.m., "Greg Shatan" <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>> "What does "such regulations" refer to?" <br>
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SO: It seem to refer to "governmentally authorized regulatory authority,..." which is appropriately noted in the section referenced.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For clarity (better put, "for avoidance of doubt"), I don't think see any lack of clarity to resolve here.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards<br></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>> If we want to save the last clause, things get more complicated. It could be changed to say "nothing in the preceding sentence should be construed to suggest that it does have such authority." Now it's clear that "such authority" refers to "governmentally authorized regulatory authority." It could also be changed to say "nothing in the preceding sentence should be construed to suggest that it does have authority to impose governmentally authorized regulations." However, I'm not sure that either of these are particularly useful statements or add any clarity to the situation. (The first is modestly more useful than the second.)<br>
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