<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:45 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" class="">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">ICANN by its function is a public governance body, if it is a private body by its form and incorporation that is just an anomaly. All the discussions/ activities regarding the transition process etc are basically aimed at addressing this anomaly, in the practical ways possible.</span> <br class=""><div class=""><p class="" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Verdana" class="">ICANN should therefore be subject to same level of transparency requirements as say the government of the US or of India is subject. Quoting 'standard commercial practices' cuts no ice. Government of India will not be able to give this response to a right to information query. ...</font></p></div></blockquote><div class="">Parminder - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ICANN by its function is not a "public governance body” - it is actually a coordination </div><div class=""> body that supports the stable and secure operation of the Internet’s various identifier </div><div class=""> systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> This does not in any way impinge on your main point: i.e. that ICANN should operate</div><div class=""> under very high transparency requirements – only that it should do so because such</div><div class=""> transparency was a basic tenet of its establishment and remains so to this day.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. my views alone (and perhaps that of the ICANN bylaws, to some extent…) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>