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<p><font face="Verdana">Two issues about the OFAC doc:</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">First is a question, I understand that a
general licence is given for a particular sanction regime, say
against X country. There is no provision for a general licence
that is standing, for a particular class of activities (DNS related)
and/ or a particular set or class of actors (ICANN) that would
automatically apply to every sanction regimes, including new
ones.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">If indeed this be true, then there is no one
time guarantee and exemption that can be given to ICANN from
OFAC, even if the US administration be inclined to do so. ICANN
have to keep asking for exemptions under every new OFAC sanction
regime, without any guarantee that it will be given such
exempting general license. Am I correct?</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Second: It surprises me that there is no
will here even to recommend that ICANN does ask for a general
licence of exemption for a given sanction regime, only that it
studies its processes, possibilities, etc.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">This convinces me that the way many,
including the chair, look at what the mandate and purpose of
this group is and what I take it to be are quite different.
People here seem to think that they should only given such
recommendations that US gov is highly likely to accept, and if
the likelihood is less than very high it is best to first
explore such likelihood before proceeding further. And only to
proceed if such high likelihood can be found. <br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">This to me is very disparaging to the
authority of this group, and its members, which is supposed to
be working on the behalf of the global public and not of the US
administration, as an advisory group to it. I resent such
devaluation of this group, and its mandate and authority (which
comes from its legitimacy of representing the interests of the
global public).</font><font face="Verdana"> I take the mandate
and responsibility of the group to be to recommend practical and
sufficiently appropriate means that makes ICANN accountable to
all the global public and not just the US public, through the
jurisdiction of the US state. </font><font face="Verdana"> </font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 30 August 2017 01:07 PM,
Greg Shatan wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As mentioned on the
Plenary Call, the attached first draft recommendation
regarding OFAC, assembled from the input of various
participants, will be reviewed on the Subgroup call. </div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The Agenda will be
amended accordingly.</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I look forward to
comments from the Subgroup.</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div>
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