<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 4 Oct 2016, at 5:43 AM, Bruce Tonkin <<a href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au" class="">Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Well said Mathieu.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks again to all members of the CCWG on Accountability that contributed to the final report - it stood the test of unbelievable scrutiny in recent months.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Indeed Bruce! As just one example, it is not at all clear whether a “weaker” model of ICANN </div><div>accountability (i.e. something failed to provide the community with a statutory right to remove</div><div>some/all of the Board members) would have actually passed the level of scrutiny that the IANA </div><div>stewardship transition received. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>The enormous effort by the CCWG on Accountability should be recognized as instrumental </div><div>to the IANA stewardship transition success (even if the community never needs to exercise </div><div>some of the mechanisms that were the result!) </div><div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. my views alone.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>