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<div>Might I suggest we just ask Steve or Becky and not try and make our own interpretations?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>&lt;<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a>&gt; on behalf of Greg Shatan &lt;<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday 13 April 2017 at 22:43<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Matthew Shears &lt;<a href="mailto:matthew@intpolicy.com">matthew@intpolicy.com</a>&gt;<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>&quot;<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>&gt;<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [CCWG-ACCT] [Ws2-hr] Letter from the Board on Human Rights<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">😁😨😱😵👹<br>
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<p style="text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__GoBack"></a></span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 46, 98);">Greg Shatan<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Matthew Shears <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Agree as well - thanks Greg.<br>
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<div class="m_1560462168413596224moz-cite-prefix">On 13/04/2017 22:19, McAuley, David via Accountability-Cross-Community wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">This makes sense to me, Greg, especially the last bullet – would be nice to hear from Board on their assessment (presumably not yet stated) on the “Considerations” portion
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif"> Greg Shatan [<a class="m_1560462168413596224moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.<wbr>com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 13, 2017 5:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Seun Ojedeji <a class="m_1560462168413596224moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">
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<b>Cc:</b> Aikman-Scalese, Anne <a class="m_1560462168413596224moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com" target="_blank">
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Ws2-hr] Letter from the Board on Human Rights<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">The Board also expresses its support for the additional efforts
<b><span style="color:blue">[i.e., the considerations document]</span></b> to complete a review of the items noted in WS1 Annex 12 to ensure they have been fully covered in the draft FOI, and to further inform the development of additional implementation recommendations
 to accompany the FOI <b><span style="color:blue">[someone is supposed to develop additional implementation recommendations]</span></b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">As part of those implementation recommendations, the Board is asking ICANN organization
<b><span style="color:blue">[i.e., staff]</span></b> to conduct an impact assessment to understand how the implementation of the recommendations would impact the organization.
<b><span style="color:blue">[It appears that the staff is developing these implementation recommendations.]</span></b> The Board encourages the CCWG
<b><span style="color:blue">[i.e., this Subgroup, primarily] </span></b>to provide examples of how the FoI is to be implemented and the areas of work that the FoI is expected to impact to assist
<b><span style="color:blue">[the staff] </span></b>with this work. This will be an important point of information for the whole of the ICANN community
<b><span style="color:blue">[i.e, the CCWG and the rest of the community via public comments and SO/AC approvals]</span></b> in their deliberations of the final recommendations.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">In other words:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">The Board knows that we're working on the Considerations document.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">The Considerations document will be used to develop implementation recommendations to accompany the FoI<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Staff is developing these implementation recommendations.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">As part of that work, Staff is doing an impact assessment.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Public comments and SO/ACs should take these examples, as well as the implementation recommendations (including the impact assessment) into account when deciding whether to approve the final
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">Based on Niels' followup, at this point, rather than working on examples now, we can wait until we hear from the Board (and others) in the public comment on the initial recommendations.</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif">(With regard to &quot;examples,&quot; it should not be forgotten that the CCWG Charter says &quot;</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:#333333">In order to facilitate
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