<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Counsel,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am forwarding these comments made on the general list for your information and in case you want to reply to the comments posed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><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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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Inicio del mensaje reenviado:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Fecha: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">21 de abril de 2015 5:10:37 GMT-5<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">De: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Malcolm Hutty <<a href="mailto:malcolm@linx.net" class="">malcolm@linx.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Para: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx" class="">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>>, Accountability Cross Community <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Asunto: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: [Acct-Legal] Sidley Austin/Adler & Colvin Response to the CCWG WP2 Templates</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class="">On 21/04/2015 08:34, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">I am forwarding the document prepared by Counsel on WP2 templates. <br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Thank you. Reading this document, I wonder how well Counsel have<br class="">understood the issues WP2 is seeking to address with its proposals.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Counsel states:<br class=""><br class="">"The risk that the board would reject even advisory IRP decisions can be<br class="">minimized through other accountability mechanisms. The threat of board<br class="">recall is present in either member or designator models. Indeed, the<br class="">board would have strong incentives not to lightly reject decisions of<br class="">the IRP, just as members/designators would have strong incentives not to<br class="">lightly recall the board."<br class=""><br class="">and later<br class=""><br class="">"Nevertheless, the ability to recall the board would<br class="">indirectly provide great incentives for IRP decisions to be honored<br class="">and ratified."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This betrays a clear failure to understand that IRP as proposed is being<br class="">provided not only for the benefit of ICANN community structures - which<br class="">participate in the decision to recall the Board - but also for the<br class="">benefit of individual entities and third parties, who may not.<br class=""><br class="">In the case of an IRP challenge where an individual company claimed that<br class="">ICANN had breached its bylaws or was acting beyond its authorised scope,<br class="">it is entirely plausible that the ICANN community structures would be<br class="">cheering the Board on: indeed, the Board's alleged transgression may<br class="">well have come about as a direct result of community consensus policy.<br class="">We are proposing a binding IRP to control ICANN; not only to protect the<br class="">community from the Board, but also to protect individual entities from<br class="">inappropriate behaviour by the ICANN community.<br class=""><br class="">In such circumstances, the affected individual entity can have little<br class="">hope that the community would sack the Board for refusing to reverse a<br class="">decision that the community structures instigated and support.<br class=""><br class="">Counsel's advice demonstrates that they have not understood this<br class="">important part of our objectives, which rather undermines the<br class="">credibility of their suggestions as to what may be satisfactory or<br class="">sufficient.<br class=""><br class="">Malcolm.<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=""> 21-27 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY<br class=""><br class=""> Company Registered in England No. 3137929<br class=""> Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>