[CCWG-ACCT] Resolution of Mission Language related to regulation and contract

[Kavouss Arasteh]

Dear All,
We need to carefully examine Avri,s Comment.'
Should the proposed language change the meaning or open any avenue for interpretation then must:
1. Avoid to do it and
2. Not putting the new language under the cover of clarification
Regards
Kavouss   
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> On 12 Dec 2015, at 17:27, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11-Dec-15 12:13, Greg Shatan wrote:
>> (a) there are existing PICs that are outside ICANN's Mission,
> 
> I am sure there are, or at least could be.  The conditions that some
> applicants had to put into their applications to meet requirements such
> as those for community and geographical and such to restrict access to
> certain populations could well be interpreted as beyond the scope of the
> ICANN mission.
> 
>> or (b) the new Mission language is changing ICANN's Mission and not
>> merely clarifying it.
> 
> Of course it is changing it.  The mission is not only expressed in the
> negotiated wording, but the interpretations made of those words over the
> years.  By changing the wording we change the basis for interpretation 
> - I expect that was the intent for some among those who wanted to
> constrain the mission.  The negotiations that have been ongoing on the
> wording seem to me to be intended to change the practical interpretation
> of the mission.  This is not just clarification.
> 
> avri
> 
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