<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=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear Cheryl and Steve (ladies first, of course),</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We have received a request from staff to ask questions to the external legal advisors regarding some of the work of the stress test work party. Staff's comment was:</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">"The stress-test work party is asking for external legal advice on mechanisms/community powers to 'remedy' Board inaction. Specifically whether, for example, if consensus advice from an</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">AC is not acted on by the Board might this 'trigger' a mechanism?</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">ST-WP particularly asks if the external legal advisory could review Stress test 17, and provided an MP3 clip of the relevant part of discussions of their last call, and supporting email from Jonathan Zuck."</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">If staff's comments are a fair reflection of your request, could you formulate these into questions we can put to lawyers?</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Some suggested wording for the questions could be along “Considering the different mechanisms that have already been analyzed: Which would be the requisites to trigger community action against Board inaction? Do this requisites or situations need to be specified in some document i.e. bylaws?” I would welcome your feedback on this suggested wording.</span><br class=""><div class=""><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Would you also like us to forward the document "Applying Stress Tests [Draft v9]" </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/ST-WP+Draft+Documents" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/acctcrosscomm/ST-WP+Draft+Documents</a></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> to the laywers to have</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">read in anticipation of future questions from the ST-WP?</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class="">
<div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">León</div>
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