All, I've given a good deal of thought to this Letter of Instruction and how the Names Community will operate under the Community Agreement. The Community Agreement allows each of the Operational Communities to communicate to the IETF Trust through the CCG Co-Chair appointed by that community. Given this ability, it's actually unnecessary to route any of the Names Community's actions through ICANN (as signatory) after the appointment of the Names Community co-chair. We really only need ICANN to do two things -- sign the agreement and communicate the appointment of the CCG Representatives (including the Co-Chair). Routing other actions through ICANN just causes unnecessary complications. In order to implement this working model, I've proposed fairly extensive changes to the Letter of Instruction. I'm attaching a clean copy (easier to read) as well as a track changes copy (to show the changes). The original version is also attached for convenience. We will still need to appoint the CCG reps, and figure out how the CWG (and the Chartering Organization Co-Chairs, when there is no CCG) instructs the CCG reps, and how the CCG reps carry out their duties generally. But that is not part of this Letter of Instruction. I look forward to comments. Best regards, Greg ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hofheimer, Joshua T. <jhofheimer@sidley.com> Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:05 AM Subject: Letter of Instruction from CWG to ICANN re Community Agreement.DOCX To: Client <cwg-client@icann.org>, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc@gmail.com>, " jrobinson@afilias.info" <jrobinson@afilias.info>, Lise Fuhr < lise.fuhr@difo.dk> Cc: "Flanagan, Sharon" <sflanagan@sidley.com>, "Resnick, Yael" < yresnick@sidley.com>, "Gregory, Holly" <holly.gregory@sidley.com>, "Grapsas, Rebecca" <rebecca.grapsas@sidley.com> Dear Client Committee, Attached is a draft letter of instruction from the “Names Community” to ICANN regarding it acting as the signatory to the Community Agreement. Per the instruction from CWG, namely that we pursue Scenario 1 from the prior Sidley memo, we have drafted this request to come from the CWG co-chairs, and look to Greg Shatan to help with the description of the “Names Community”. We look forward to discussing on our call on Thursday. Cheers, Josh *JOSHUA T. HOFHEIMER* Partner *SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP* +1 650 565 7561 (PA direct) +1 213 896 6061 (LA direct) +1 323 708 2405 (Cell) jhofheimer@sidley.com www.sidley.com *[image: SIDLEY]* ************************************************************ **************************************** This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. ************************************************************ ****************************************