<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Hello Greg, all</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I like to quote 2 sections from our current draft:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">"These sanctions have been imposed on certain countries, as well as individuals and entities that appear on OFAC's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the "SDN List"). ICANN is prohibited from providing most goods or services to residents of sanctioned countries or their governmental entities or to SDNs without an applicable U.S. government authorization or exemption."<br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Our recommendation:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">"ICANN should commit to applying for and using best efforts to secure an OFAC license for all such applicants if the applicant is otherwise qualified (and is not on the SDN list)"<br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Please pay attention to the phrases in bracket of both paragraphs. Am i right if I understand this to mean we are actually not asking ICANN to seek exemption for those on the SDN list? (If the response if a Yes then kindly read further below)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">If I may, how does our recommendation serve as improvement from the status quo? I mean what category of applicants will start to feel the positive impact of our recommendation?<br><br>Regards</div><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 13, 2017 3:29 AM, "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">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">One of the Subgroup members pointed out a minor editing error in the document. On pages 13-14, there were several mentions of the RAA, when in fact the language quoted and discussed was from the <font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ICANN Terms and Conditions for Registrar Accreditation
Application. (The reference was correct in the Executive Summary.) This has now been fixed in the attached.</span></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Greg </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Greg Shatan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Some minor formatting errors crept into the Report when it was converted from Word to PDF. A new PDF of the report is attached. I've checked each page to confirm that the formatting errors were resolved.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you to Jorge Cancio for catching this problem!</div><span class="m_-8700937348425596642HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></font></span><div><div class="m_-8700937348425596642h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Greg Shatan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I am pleased to submit the Draft Report from the Jurisdiction Subgroup for consideration by the CCWG-Accountability Plenary.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It is my understanding that a minority viewpoint is expected to be submitted. In the interests of time, this will be submitted to the Plenary separately from the Draft Report.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:12.8px">During the preparation of the OFAC Recommendation, the Subgroup considered an email where a registrar declined to do business with a potential reseller, based on the registrar’s policy of not doing business with people with Iranian passports. The Subgroup also learned that this registrar, which had been registering domains for a number of Iranian nationals, refused to continue to do business with them. The Subgroup has concluded that, to the extent these instances are related to OFAC, the concerns raised by these instances are adequately covered in the Recommendation already without any additional changes. This is not in any way a comment on the validity of these particular concerns. The Subgroup will consider creating "<span class="m_-8700937348425596642m_-1922489801139394888m_-1211245373740868748gmail-il">stress</span> <span class="m_-8700937348425596642m_-1922489801139394888m_-1211245373740868748gmail-il">tests</span>" based on these scenarios.</i><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:12.8px"><br></i></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I look forward to the Plenary's reading of the Draft Report.</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greg Shatan</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Rapporteur</i></span></div></div>
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