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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks Ed! That means a lot to me and the team!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">GREGORY</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
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<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com" title="Click to send email to Gregory, Holly">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Edward Morris [mailto:egmorris1@toast.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 22, 2015 10:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gregory, Holly; thomas@rickert.net; mathieu.weill@afnic.fr; León Felipe Sánchez Ambía; ccwg-accountability5@icann.org; Alice Jansen; Grace Abuhamad<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sidley ICANN CCWG; ICANN-Adler<br>
<b>Subject:</b> re: [Acct-Legal] Comparison of CCWG CMSM Proposal and ICANN Board MEM Proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Many months ago I was part of the small Legal Sub-team that chose to retain both your firms to advise us here on the CCWG. As I've been reading the
documents you've just sent us contrasting the Board and CCWG 2nd draft proposals my initial reaction has been "damn, we made the right decision".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks you for your extraordinary, detailed, comprehensive and valuable work. It's of great help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">: "Gregory, Holly" <<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:06 AM<br>
<b>To</b>: "<a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net">thomas@rickert.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net">thomas@rickert.net</a>>, "<a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>>,
"León Felipe Sánchez Ambía" <<a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>>, "<a href="mailto:ccwg-accountability5@icann.org">ccwg-accountability5@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ccwg-accountability5@icann.org">ccwg-accountability5@icann.org</a>>,
"Alice Jansen" <<a href="mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org">alice.jansen@icann.org</a>>, "Grace Abuhamad" <<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc</b>: "Sidley ICANN CCWG" <<a href="mailto:sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com">sidleyicannccwg@sidley.com</a>>, "ICANN-Adler" <<a href="mailto:ICANN@adlercolvin.com">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject</b>: [Acct-Legal] Comparison of CCWG CMSM Proposal and ICANN Board MEM Proposal</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Dear Co-Chairs, Members and Participants of CCWG, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Attached please find three documents to assist in preparation for our meeting in L.A.:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A memo from Sidley and Adler with our high level observations regarding comparison between the Board Proposal and the CCWG Proposal.
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A Summary Comparison of Key Characteristics of CMSM Model and Board Proposal – this or something along these lines will be expanded out in the next several days to include the Sole Designator
model as requested on today’s call</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Comparison of CCWG 2<sup>nd</sup> Draft Proposal (Community Mechanism as Sole Member) and ICANN Board Proposal (Comparison)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">We look forward to seeing you in L.A.,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Holly and Rosemary<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> <b>J. GREGORY</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Partner and Co-Chair<br>
Global Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Practice</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sidley Austin LLP</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">+1 212 839 5853<br>
<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com" title="Click to send email to Gregory, Holly">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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