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      Here is my brief comment from the Cross-Community Working Group on
      Accountability, where Bruce Tonkin posted the text from: <a
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      <font color="#660000">Bruce, This is the formal evidence and logic
        based ICANN contribution to clarity here. That helps but the
        risk is that the IANA Transition will become a political
        football in the final days of the U.S. election. At that point
        evidence and logic will hold little sway against media "sound
        bites"  that may well be completely false. The hope is that the
        parties to the election have bigger issues to deal with. If this
        becomes an issue there will be nothing ICANN can do in the
        immediate time frame, but there would be important lessons for
        ICANN to learn with regard to an ongoing strategy of global
        internet governance education. <br>
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      <p><font color="#660000">Actually, going forward ICANN, working
          with its stakeholders, should address this challenge even if
          the issue does not become media sound bites in the next couple
          of weeks. Accountability, like open data, should include
          knowledge translation to inform and educate all.</font> [<i>Sorry,
          as an academic I succumbed to a Saturday lecture here, but I
          do know what it means to talk over people's heads, we (and
          ICANN) do it all the time, with poor results </i><i><span
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      <p>Sam L. <br>
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      On 9/10/2016 5:14 AM, Michael Oghia wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:06 AM,
            "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <span dir="ltr"><<a
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              .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I prefer
              the official ICANN language "IANA Stewardship Transition":
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