<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your notes Joke. Very much appreciated when I cannot make the call.<div><br></div><div>Maureen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:59 AM Joke Braeken <<a href="mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org">joke.braeken@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Please find included below the action items and notes from today’s CCWG new gTLD Auction Proceeds meeting, held on Wednesday, 25 March 2020 at 14.00 UTC. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Notes were taken as well in the templates themselves, discussed during today’s meeting. Those templates will be shared with the CCWG by the end of the week, to allow the group to review the proposed CCWG agreements.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">The high-level notes included below are designed to help the CCWG navigate through the content of the call and are not meant as a substitute for the transcript and/or recording. The recordings are provided separately
and are posted on the wiki at: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/DLHDAw" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114);background:white">https://community.icann.org/x/DLHDAw</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">
. </span><span style="color:black">Thank you.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Best regards, Joke Braeken</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">NOTES / ACTION ITEMS</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="color:black">These high-level notes are designed to help the CCWG navigate through the content of the call and are not meant as a substitute for the transcript and/or recording.
The MP3, transcript, and chat are provided separately and are posted on the wiki at:
</span></i><a href="https://community.icann.org/x/DLHDAw" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://community.icann.org/x/DLHDAw</span></i></a><i><span style="color:black"> .</span></i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Attendance will be taken from the zoom room. Welcome by co-Chair Erika Mann.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span></b><u></u><b><span style="color:black">Review of public comments on the Proposed Final Report (focus on responses to public comment question #4, see attached public comment review template)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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Input from ICANN legal received.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">Comment from the BC: “The BC notes that the CCWG has already recognized that Bylaws must be amended to eliminate Request for Reconsideration and Independent Review Panel from the available remedies to challenge grants. These are amendments
to Fundamental By-Laws and which should require Empowered Community approval.”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">Question for ICANN Legal: It is the leadership team’s understanding that a carve out would be needed from existing accountability mechanisms as any Board decision could be challenged under the existing
accountability mechanisms (including the approval of allocation of auction proceeds). Therefore, an exemption is needed if Board decisions on auction proceeds are not challengeable under existing accountability mechanisms. Can you confirm that this is correct?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">Legal Response: Yes, this is correct. This will require an amendment to the Fundamental Bylaws, as the BC note suggests, in order to effectuate this carve out. The Fundamental Bylaws process requires
Empowered Community approval. This does not mean that the Empowered Community must approve the CCWG Final Report, though we should be clear (as there is cross-over between the Decisional Participants in the Empowered Community and the Chartering Organizations
for the CCWG) that a Bylaws change is necessary and will be forthcoming. Of course, the Bylaws change will have to be appropriately drafted and will be subject to all appropriate processes.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Anne: grants themselves are not Board decisions, but evaluation panel decisions. The response from legal relates to the bylaws amendments. The confusing language is "including the approval of allocation of auction proceeds" - allocation
is normally a budget term and we have to clarify that EC powers are not diminished as to the overall Budget item</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Legal: we understood this as “how things are challenged, at large”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Comment from the BC: ". . .The BC is also concerned that the final recommendation does not contain sufficient detail to ensure that the empowered community retains the ability to oversee ICANNs proposed budget and the disbursement
of the auction proceeds. In particular, <b>the Empowered Community should retain its ability to enforce accountability mechanisms related to items in the ICANN budget that are proposed to be allocated to grant making activity</b>. The Final Report should also
clarify that any changes to the bylaws needed to implement the report are not intended to strip the Empowered Community of its budgetary authority."</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">Question for Sam: Regarding the text in bold, it is not clear to the leadership team that the Empowered Community is relevant to the allocation of auction proceeds. As auction proceeds funds are kept
and accounted for separately, does it even fall within the EC’s purview?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)">Legal Response: The place where the Empowered Community's powers come in is only in relationship its specified powers in the Bylaws. The Empowered Community powers includes rejection powers on the
Five-year strategic plan, on the Five-year operating plan, on the annual operating plan and on the annual budget, which would include grant making activities as relevant. There are no plans to change any of those Empowered Community powers other than in the
broader scope of carving out individual application decisions from ICANN's Reconsideration or Independent Review processes. To the extent that there are items represented in ICANN's budget or operating plans that relate to grant making activities, the Empowered
Community powers would be applicable. If there are separate budgets or plans that are appropriate to maintain for ICANN's separate grant-making mechanism work, the details of how that interacts with the Bylaws-mandated budgets and plans will need to be addressed
during implementation.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Allan: the IRP is not limited to Board Actions. Including actions or in-actions of staff. If someone applies for a grant, and we say no, they do not have a right to appeal through the accountability mechanisms.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Anne: response form ICANN legal is helpful. Language we had regarding change of fundamental bylaw to be reviewed by Anne.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sam: IRP does not extend to contractors. It is about whether ICANN followed its Bylaws/Mission.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">if ICANN improperly relies on actions taken by a subcontractor, then you challenge ICANN’s action, not the subcontractor’s action.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Emily: I don’t believe there is currently language in the proposed Final Report addressing the Empowered Community. This may be something that the leadership team needs to take back and propose language to include</span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">
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<span style="color:black">Sam: in the future, do we need further details regarding the budgetary or planning powers by ECA? Language as currently in place should be sufficient.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Allan: no need to mention the ECA in the report, but to be on the safe side, include it anyhow. We are aware of the situation. We understand that to change the EC, we need a fundamental bylaw change</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Allan: limit in the implementation guidance to the 2nd question. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sam: does not want it represented in the bylaws. Small details could cause interpretation issues in the bylaws</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Allan: put a statement in the report, that if the EC felt that the tranche allocated to the AP, was either too small/large it could be subject to community action. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Erika: this was not yet discussed. Approval by board. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sam: We’d want to coordinate with Xavier on any language that addresses specific budget items</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Anne: Suggest "For the sake of clarity, the recommended ByLaws amendment is not intended to affect the powers of the EC over the overall Budget as expressed in the current ByLaws".</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sam: we probably want to make it a bit broader to reflect that the EC powers are broader than just over the budget, but I think that your language is a good starting point</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">Decision: </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:black">frame the issue raised, do not expand language in the report itself, but add to the list of issues that needs to be addressed during the implementation phase. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:black">Add language, based on Anne’s suggestion "For the sake of clarity, the recommended ByLaws amendment is not intended to affect the powers of the EC over the overall Budget as expressed in the current ByLaws".
Take into account Sam’s remark regarding making it broader<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Support of the leadership recommendation by Carolina, Anne, Judith, Vanda<u></u><u></u></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline">
Allan: similar to previous discussion regarding feasibility study / assessment.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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