<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you Martin and Cheryl. Is there any additional feedback? We would like to finalize this by the end of the week. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Summary of feedback so far: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Issue #1 Thresholds</b>: Move forward with current practices, i.e. simple majority, since CSC Charter amendments will go a public comment process prior to approval by the ccNSO and GNSO. </div><ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><li>Support: Donna, Paul, Cheryl, Martin</li><li>No objections </li></ul><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b>Issue #2 Timing of 1st IFR</b>: Martin suggested the following</font><font face="Calibri"> compromise text: "will commence not later than two years after the Transition” <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> </div> </font></div><ul><li>Support: Martin, Cheryl</li><li>No objections </li></ul><div><font face="Calibri"><b>Issue #3 Use of the Empowered Community mechanisms for the Special IFR</b>: There is support for using the community mechanisms, but in order to provide flexibility in the Bylaws, and for the Special IFR process, Martin suggested: <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">" ...</div>allow the RySG and/or ccNSO to launch a consultation process leading to a review <div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> "</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> </div> </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><li>Support: Martin, Cheryl</li><li>No objections </li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please send your feedback as soon as possible on list so that we can pass the responses to Sidley and proceed with the work plan. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Grace</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Cheryl Langdon-Orr <<a href="mailto:langdonorr@gmail.com">langdonorr@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 9:10 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Grace Abuhamad <<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a>>, Nathalie Vergnolle <<a href="mailto:nathalie.vergnolle@icann.org">nathalie.vergnolle@icann.org</a>>, Akram Atallah <<a href="mailto:akram.atallah@icann.org">akram.atallah@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] Input Needed: Bylaws Matrix Responses and Three Issues<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Grace thank you for this... 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</td></tr></tbody></table></a><div> </div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 February 2016 at 04:41, Grace Abuhamad <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" target="_blank">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>Dear CWG-Stewardship and ICANN Implementation Team, </div><div><br></div><div>Please see attached the latest version of the responses to the Sidley Bylaws Matrix as well as a list of three currently unresolved issues for CWG-Stewardship input (also copied below for your convenience). The action assigned on the CWG-Stewardship call
today was to share these documents with the group, and simultaneously with the ICANN implementation team for any input they may have. </div><div><br></div><div>On the CWG-Stewardship call today, we outlined the three issues and had an initial, but non-conclusive, discussion about them. On the thresholds issue, Donna Austin suggests we go with current practices, i.e. simple majority, since Charter amendments will
go a public comment process prior to approval by the ccNSO and GNSO. Paul Kane agrees. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to your input, </div><div>Grace</div><div><br></div><div>A recap of the three issues presented on call (also in document attached): </div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">There are three issues for the CWG-Stewardship to address:
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Issue #1: Thresholds<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For the CSC Charter, the CCNSO and GNSO Councils must approve amendments. The DT leads noted that the intention is that the respective Councils (ccNSO and GNSO) would vote to ratify any proposed charter amendment/s
and the threshold would be in accordance with their respective methods of operation. However, the current responses further suggest that, “supermajority of both Councils would seem appropriate if this can be accommodated.”
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Staff would like to note that supermajority may not be consistent with current practice in the GNSO and CCNSO Councils. In the case of the GNSO, the default voting threshold is simple majority of each house.
Should a supermajority vote be deemed appropriate for this purpose, the relevant section in the ICANN bylaws that details voting thresholds that differ from simple majority, would need to be updated.
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Does the CWG want to define a higher threshold for the CCNSO and GNSO councils or proceed with existing operating procedures within the Councils?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;display:inline">
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Paragraph 194 does allow, however for a Special IFR sooner than 2 years if needed.
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">CWG needs to choose: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial">1.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial">The first IFR will not commence until two years after the Transition
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial">The first IFR will be completed by the 2-year anniversary of the Transition</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;display:inline">
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<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">If the CWG-Stewardship adopts the Empowered Community mechanism of the CCWG-Accountability, then the process for escalation includes a discussion forum. Would that be sufficient? If not, the CWG-Stewardship
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