[CWG-Stewardship] Questions for "Outside Counsel"? -- REPLIES REQUESTED

[Milton L Mueller]

Greg,
Good initiative.

I would put forward the following questions and give you latitude to merge them with questions motivated by the same concerns or to rephrase them in more legalistic terms:


1.      How could the relationship between the MRT and the Contract Co. be defined in such a way as to constrain the Contract Co. to follow the instructions of the MRT?

2.      Where would the legal documents defining the composition of the MRT reside? With Contract Co. or with ICANN or with the MRT itself? If the MRT, and MRT is unincorporated how would that work? If with Contract Co., how would they be modified?

3.      Should the officers/staff of the Contract Co. be drawn from the chairs/members of the MRT or should they be separate?

I’ll probably think of 3-4 other questions after the deadline, but this will do for now

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Thanks to Guru, Maarten and Chuck for their contributions to this list.  I will keep this list open until 23:59 UTC today, and then use it to put a request to staff and thence to ICANN for such "expert" assistance (the CCWG-Accountability gets a slate of experts, but we will hopefully get some expert guidance as well....)

Greg


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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Gomes, Chuck <cgomes at verisign.com<mailto:cgomes at verisign.com>> wrote:
A very broad question is whether the proposal for Contract Co. and the MRT is legally viable.  If not, is it possible to make it viable and how?  What advice can you provide about this direction?

With these questions we should attach whatever is the latest version of the proposal at the time.

Chuck

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All:

As previously discussed, there are several aspects of our work where we thought it would be helpful to get legal advice from independent counsel.

I've been advised that in order to make this request, we should have a list of the questions we would like to put to counsel.
I am starting this thread in the hopes that others in the CWG will reply with the questions they believe the CWG should put to counsel.

Thank you for your contributions!

Greg Shatan

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