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    <p>+ 1 James</p>
    <p>But I think this raises an interesting question that's going to
      become more pressing post transition - which is how fast and how
      well NCSG/NCUC/NPOC can get up to speed in terms of not only
      their/our respective responsibilities with regard being part of
      the EC, but also in terms of what our views should be on WS2 -
      which at the moment is a hodge podge of issue areas that everyone
      is reading into.  While Helsinki is seemingly impossible to find
      time at for this type of important discussion - which shows how
      unhelpful this new structure is - perhaps we can find time to do a
      deep dive into these two matters in Hyderabad.</p>
    <p>Matthew<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/2016 8:12 PM, James Gannon
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            <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>NCSG-Discuss
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            <span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Kathy
            Kleiman <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday 26 May
            2016 at 19:15<br>
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            <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: great
            opening statement by Brett<br>
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                <p>All,</p>
                <p>I think the nuances of the concerns are being missed.
                  There is something much, much more than the mere
                  transition of the US Government out of its current
                  role. As Avri pointed out earlier today:  "This was
                  linked to improvements in ICANN accountability.  We
                  fought for that and got it. Upfront we agreed to this
                  process be divided into two parts."</p>
                <p>I think everyone agrees with the transition -- Bret
                  certainly said he did at the hearing. But it is those
                  improvements of ICANN Accountability that people are
                  questioning. Are they fair? Are they balanced? Are
                  they understood by all who will be impacted by them</p>
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              <p>JG: This was a process of two years produced in an open
                and inclusive manner for everyone who wanted to be at
                the table, everyone had their chance for input, for
                assessment for including the views of their
                stakeholders, I contend that yes everyone who is
                impacted by these changes has been engaged with.</p>
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              <p>I have to tell you I am concerned because there seem to
                be a lot of "gotchas" -- meaning every time I hear
                someone testify about the details of the Accountability
                & Transition plan, someone else (involved with the
                process) says that he/she/it did not understand it that
                way. There was certainly a lot of last minute changes
                and maneuvering.  There is not, frankly, a lot of
                knowledge or understanding about the details of how this
                restructuring and reorganization is going to work. 
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      <div>JG: I disagree with this, we have a comprehensive plan, with
        a large amount of detail, to a level that shows the details
        needed to understand. If people do not wish to read the proposal
        and gain understanding then I don’t feel that they have the
        ability to sit at the sidelines and criticise. Informed
        criticism and feedback is welcome, posturing is not.</div>
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              <p>Rather than name-calling, or picture discussion, let's
                talk about the details (the devil's always there,
                right). Can a consensus policy really be appealed to an
                Independent Review Process proceeding by one of the
                multiple stakeholders involved?  Isn't that going to
                give those stakeholders with the most time and resources
                a third, fourth and fifth bite at the policies we are
                negotiating? Isn't that going to undermine our months
                and years of work in the policy development process and
                working groups?  That's one question that no one has
                been able to answer for me.</p>
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      <div>JG: Please I encourage everyone to read the proposal, so much
        misinformation and fear uncertainty and doubt is being spread by
        certain actors at the moment I really suggest people with
        concerns go back to the source and stop listening to others who
        are trying to further an agenda. PDP carveout are in the
        proposal for exactly that reason.</div>
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      <div><b>Annex 2:</b></div>
      <div>Power: 3. Reject changes to Standard Bylaws</div>
      <div>Threshold to convene: Two SOs/ACs, including the SO that led
        the PDP that requires the Bylaw change (if any)</div>
      <div>Threshold to reject: Three support rejection, including the
        SO that led the PDP that requires the Bylaw change (if any), and
        no more than one objection</div>
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      <div><b>Annex 7:</b></div>
      <div>Challenges the result(s) of a Supporting Organization’s
        policy development process (PDP) Notwithstanding the foregoing
        and notwithstanding any required threshold for launching a
        community IRP, no community IRP that challenges the result(s) of
        an SO’s policy development process (PDP) may be launched without
        the support of the SO that approved the policy recommendations
        from the PDP or, in the case of the result(s) of a Cross
        Community Working Group (CCWG) chartered by more than one SO,
        without the support of the SOs that approved the policy
        recommendations from that CCWG.</div>
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              if you help us understand, we'll appreciate it. But this
              is much more than a transition from USG oversight...
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            <p>Kathy<br>
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            <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/2016 12:26 PM, Mueller,
              Milton L wrote:<br>
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                    But that's not the goal, in my eyes. The goal is to
                    create an institution that can manage these
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM:
                      As Avri noted, the goal of the stewardship
                      transition was to…transition, i.e. get the US govt
                      out of its current role. I am flabbergasted by the
                      fact that you do not see the US oversight role as
                      a broken part of the institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM:
                      As someone who has written about early
                      post-revolutionary America, I wonder how you would
                      respond to my argument “</span><span
                      style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#444444;background:white">all
                      these new democratic government models are new and
                      untested. We don’t really know how well they will
                      work. Why doesn’t the United States retain its
                      status as a British colony under the King for a
                      few years, and let him decide if the experiment
                      has worked?”</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">All I'm suggesting is that it
                    would hardly seem unreasonable, to me, if the USG
                    took the position that while it is signing off on
                    the transition, it is doing so subject to a kind of
                    probationary period that will enable us all to
                    understand better whether and how it actually works.
                    Perhaps other countries will view that as a terribly
                    untrustworthy move, perhaps they won't - I do think
                    it helps that it is, fundamentally, quite a
                    reasonable position to take.<br>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">MM:
                      So you assume that the USG is NOT part of the
                      machine, it is a deus ex machina that we can
                      invoke at any time to insert an entirely rational,
                      undistorted corrective action on whatever happens?
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