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    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Thanks Remmy, looking
          forward to seeing something on ABRs!</font></font></p>
    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">cheers Stephanie</font></font><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-01-08 11:52, Remmy Nweke wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Stephanie
        <div>I will rather think that getting this account settled once
          and for all, especially the interests are there and people are
          volunteering to work along to ensure it worked for posterity.</div>
        <div>I will equally suggest since there are uncertainty over
          Estonia e-ID, we can take up Sam's option in Canada. VIP is
          that our EC can access the fund when necessary and signatories
          can be changed also. For me this matters a lot.</div>
        <div>I thought the issue of ABR is already in the works as FC is
          tinkering on template for that to be shared on or before
          weekend to fast track that aspect including the assessment
          afterwards.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:26 PM Stephanie Perrin
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            <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">SO.....rather
                  than argue endlessly about where to open a bank
                  account that has marginal utility given we have no
                  money, could somebody please turn their minds to the
                  ABRs and volunteer to think up what we need money for,
                  and draft them?  Also comments on the five year plan,
                  so we can see if our thin dribble of travel funding is
                  going to be cut, depending on future revenue
                  calculations?  Hands up, who has read it?  I am sorry
                  folks, I do take this matter rather seriously, but we
                  have bigger fish to fry at the moment.  This is not my
                  biggest priority, settling on where to open an
                  account. 
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            <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">cheers
                  Stephanie</font></font><br>
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            <div class="gmail-m_-5667581958254063606moz-cite-prefix">On
              2019-01-08 04:01, Raoul Plommer wrote:<br>
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                        <div>This is a lot more complicated a topic than
                          I think people are giving credit to</div>
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                      Thanks for acknowledging that. :)<br>
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                          <div>No-one has yet spoken about legal
                            liabilities that come from establishing a
                            legal entity, and I also don’t believe that
                            anyone has spoken to ICANN legal yet
                            (Currently we only exist as an entity within
                            the ICANN bylaws, also there are
                            interactions with the Empowered Community
                            responsibilities that would need to be
                            incorporated into the establishment of any
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                      <div>I can only speak for my experience in
                        Finland, but the responsibilities are pretty
                        much as follows: 1) Names of people running the
                        board and electing them every two years or more
                        often 2) At least one official meeting in a year
                        setting out budget and plan for next year and
                        auditing the account + possibly selecting the
                        new board.<br>
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                      <div>That's pretty much it.<br>
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                      <div>The CSG has registered as a nonprofit
                        association in the USA and I doubt that they
                        asked for a permission from ICANN to establish
                        it. You
                        <i>might</i> be right though and I guess we'd
                        really need to ask them. That should be quite
                        easy to answer to, though.<br>
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                        I'm not sure what Empowered Community
                        responsibilities you mean. I think our current
                        charters will go a long way as the charter of a
                        new registered nonprofit entity.<br>
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                      <div>-Raoul<br>
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