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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">BC members --
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Wanted you to see this intervention regarding the IANA Transition and new ICANN bylaws.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Last Thursday at the
<a href="https://icann78.sched.com/event/1T4Jk/approval-action-community-forum">Approval Action Community Forum</a>, I was the only person to speak, and said this, at 22:40 of
<a href="https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/l2LwV-lIVw-Toz_goWQemlIYYLun5k0ssot_q83DWUb5SpoG9jKaSjO0sxn5tPQ-gti_ryYCbHuCj54.FQQhHdv1W0yPgNO4?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&startTime=1698325378000&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ficann.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FQtleusV8TqY3QNUqi3UJivJsi0ycXKfbrDjM-o825P2MGQZAlbVFvBUMxtnClIGT.U2PReAcsf8_sJ7Dl%3FstartTime%3D1698325378000">
this zoom feed</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Steve DelBianco with the business constituency.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">I looked around, and about half of the folks in this room were around in 2014, 2015, and 2016, when we used the IANA transition as a leverage point
to create bylaws, processes, and the empowered community.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">It allows the communities ICANN was designed to serve to hold the board and org</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">accountable to those communities.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">For the other half in the room: You have to be mystified about Why there would be so much preparation from legal and org, and why the entire board
is seated in the room to look at what seem to be insignificant and trivial amendments to the fundamental bylaws.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">But you couldn't be more wrong.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">This represents an exercise of the muscle of the empowered community. Because there may be times in the future when we're exercising this muscle on
far more controversial amendments to fundamental bylaws, or a challenge to a decision that ICANN is made.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">And the fact that you're taking this so seriously gives me great comfort, and it gives me ammunition.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Back in Washington, DC, where critics of ICANN and those who wish the transition never occurred are continuing to wonder whether the empowered community
has any power at all.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">So I'll point to this as an instance that it's really being taken seriously. So when and if we need to hold board and org accountable on something
more significant, we'll know how to do it. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">So I thank you for your seriousness.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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