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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/10/18 12:06 AM, Bernard Turcotte
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">All,</span></p>
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pleased to inform you that all the Chartering
Organizations have approved the
WS 2 recommendations by the end of ICANN 63.</span></p>
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the various approvals can be found in the attached
document. Please note that
the GAC approved all the recommendations with the
exception of the Jurisdiction
recommendations which it did not approve or reject. </span></p>
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<p>One is glad that the world was was saved the ignominy of its
governments formally accepting that it is fine that one country
should keep ruling over a key global infrastructure. Also, good
that the report itself notes that the group could not fully agree
on what issues of jurisdiction were really to be covered by it,
and that some of them need to be discussed and sorted out in the
future. <br>
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<p>This is a very important conceptual and in-principle win for
global democracy, and democratic rule of law -- if just a
rearguard defensive action. The credit for it almost exclusively
goes to the valiant and intelligent Brazilian diplomats involved
in the process, whom I congratulate and thank heartily. <br>
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<p>Meanwhile, one does greatly regret that a once-in-decades chance
to make ICANN truly globally democratic (as was in fact called for
by NetMundial Conference) has been missed. As the global Internet
is beginning to split in cold war like zones and shells (as also<a
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claimed by no less that Eric Schmidt </a>), lack of globally
democratic IG structures will need to share their considerable
responsibility for this dangerous slide. We could have done
something here to try and make things better, but dominant
interests prevailed once again. History will, unfortunately, look
back on this process as a missed opportunity. <br>
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<p>parminder<br>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">As such the
Co-Chairs will be transmitting the WS2 recommendations
to the ICANN Board for
approval and implementation.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">We will post
updates to this list as the process for approval by the
Board and
implementation by ICANN progress.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Thank you
again to everyone who contributed to this work over the
past two years or so.
It is a great accomplishment to be able to forward the
proposals on to the
ICANN board with the broad support of the chartering
organizations.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">The
CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Thomas,
Jordan, Tijani</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Bernard Turcotte</span></p>
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Support to the CCWG-Accountabilit WS2</span></p>
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