Greetings, FYI Sidley Austin and Adler & Colvin have given their blessing to the Proposed Draft ICANN Bylaws, dated 20 April 2016 ("Proposed Draft Bylaws"). The lawyers, Holly J. Gregory and Rosemary E. Fei, state: "We believe that the Proposed Draft Bylaws are consistent with the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability ("CCWG-Accountability") Supplemental Final Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations (23 February 2016) relating to the IANA Stewardship Transition. Accordingly, we recommend that the Proposed Draft Bylaws be posted to the community for review." FYI, the proposed Bylaws run to 216 pages. Of immediate interest to us are Article 10 ("Country-code Names Supporting Organization"), Annex B ("CCNSO Policy-development process"), and Annex C ("The Scope of the ccNSO"). Additionally, we will have to at a minimum also review Articles 18 and 19 ("IANA naming function and review" and "IANA naming function separation process"), as well as Article 12 ("Advisory Committees"). At the end of the day, we have a lot of reading ahead of us, as in my opinion at the very least we owe our Community a close and comprehensive scrutiny of the entire document during a proper review period. Lastly, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for all the incredible work that our CCWG members (and rapporteur) did to get us to this day, and most especially, a big thank you to Becky who has done so much, over so many years, to get us to this moment. Best Regards, Stephen Deerhake AS Domain Registry GDNS LLC +1 212 334 3660 +1 212 656 1982 (fax) sdeerhake@nic.as <mailto:sdeerhake@nic.as> sdeerhake@gdns.net <mailto:sdeerhake@gdns.net>