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It includes alternatives in the<br class="">places where we disagreed.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Avri,<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for a useful piece of work, most of which seems to me to be<br class="">easily agreeable.<br class=""><br class="">I do see a problem with your definition of ICANN Empowered Community.<br class=""><br class="">You suggest:<br class="">"ICANN Empowered Community aka ICANN EC : The representatives of the<br class="">ICANN Corporation assigned by the various SOAC to the Empowered<br class="">Community function"<br class=""><br class="">The Bylaws state (Article 6.1):<br class="">"(a) The Empowered Community ("EC") shall be a nonprofit association<br class="">formed under the laws of the State of California consisting of the ASO,<br class="">the ccNSO (as defined in Section 10.1), the GNSO (as defined in Section<br class="">11.1), the ALAC (as defined in Section 12.2(d)(i)) and the GAC (each a<br class="">"Decisional Participant" or "associate," and collectively, the<br class="">"Decisional Participants")<br class="">[...]"<br class=""><br class="">These are inconsistent.<br class=""><br class="">The Bylaws define the Empowered Community as a composite legal entity,<br class="">that is comprised of the named SOACs. You give that name to<br class="">"representatives", i.e. individuals.<br class=""><br class="">I don't think there is even such a thing as "representatives" of the<br class="">SOACs in the Empowered Community process, but even if there were, there<br class="">is a distinction between individuals and the entity.<br class=""><br class="">I don't think we should encourage people to use the term Empowered<br class="">Community in a manner inconsistent with the formal Bylaws definition;<br class="">this will only generate more of the confusion your paper seeks to resolve.<br class=""><br class="">Kind Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Malcolm<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""> Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523<br class=""> Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog<br class=""> London Internet Exchange | <a href="http://publicaffairs.linx.net/" class="">http://publicaffairs.linx.net/</a><br class=""><br class=""> London Internet Exchange Ltd<br class=""> Monument Place, 24 Monument Street London EC3R 8AJ<br class=""><br class=""> Company Registered in England No. 3137929<br class=""> Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org" class="">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a><br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>