[CWG-Stewardship] Remember to send questions and comments to legal advice from Sidley Austin

[Matthew Shears]

Hi Paul

I share your interest in seeing some suggestions from legal advisors on 
your points below.

Thanks.

Matthew

On 4/7/2015 10:58 PM, Paul M Kane - CWG wrote:
> Thanks Lise
>
> I appreciate the opinion given by Sidley with respect to the functional
> separation and I see that it may not deliver the required safeguards.
>   
> Yes we want better functional separation, a dedicated budget and improvements to
> the reporting given to the community .... yes we all want ICANN's current IANA
> staff to deliver service but things change, especially when people/performance
> change..... hence.....
>
> I would like to specifically ask Sidley to give formal advise on how best to
> ensure an affiliate company (as part of ICANN Community) can be the custodian
> for the Stewardship role currently undertaken by NTIA.
>   
> Specifically, a limited scope multi-stakeholder company with a CSC style body
> that in the event of ICANN's IANA staff being unable to perform to the
> prescribed SLE, or ICANN corporate deciding that they no longer wish to deliver
> the IANA service that triggers the affiliated company to:
> •	publish an objective service orientated RFP;
> •	invite interested parties to deliver IANA service(s) and respond to the RFP;
> •	to select and contract with the operator best able to serve IANA’s customers.
>
> Unfortunately my day job has caused me to undertake the next 10 days of travel,
> so I will be on the call(s) as and when possible. Please accept my apologies for
> any calls missed... and hope someone will be kind enough to express the views I
> have already conveyed.
>
> Kind regards to all
>
> Best
>
> Paul
>
> Quoting Lise Fuhr <lise.fuhr at difo.dk>:
>
>> Dear all,
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>> Many of you were eager to discuss the memo from Sidley on our  CWG call
>> today. To reaffirm what I said on the call, we will have a full discussion
>> of this memo during the high-intensity meetings on Monday and Tuesday next
>> week.
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>> As part of preparation for the group and for the legal counsel, we've asked
>> that you provide written questions and comments on list. While these two
>> phases (preparation, then discussion) seem to draw out the conversation, we
>> believe it actually makes for a more productive discussion for all parties.
>> Having written questions in advance allows for the group to read and digest
>> the information, and for the legal counsel to prepare their briefing to the
>> group. We used this approach for the Istanbul meeting and found that the
>> preparation played an key part in the success of the discussion.
>>
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>> Once more I would like to encourage you to send your questions and comments
>> to the list by 13:00 UTC on Thursday so that they may be compiled and
>> presented to the Client Committee for their call.
>>
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>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lise
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