All, Please see attached for discussion at today’s CWG call. Jonathan From: Flanagan, Sharon [mailto:sflanagan@sidley.com] Sent: 25 February 2016 04:26 To: jrobinson@afilias.info; 'Client Committee' <cwg-client@icann.org>; 'Lise Fuhr' <Fuhr@etno.eu> Subject: RE: [client com] Draft CWG Comment Letter on CCWG Final Proposal Dear All, Attached is a revised draft letter with the changes below reflected. To facilitate CWG’s review, we have also attached redlines to the February 19 draft and also the final CWG comment letter on the third CCWG proposal. Kind regards, Holly and Sharon SHARON R. FLANAGAN Partner SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP +1 415 772 1271 sflanagan@sidley.com <mailto:sflanagan@sidley.com> From: Jonathan Robinson [mailto:jrobinson@afilias.info] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:14 AM To: Flanagan, Sharon; 'Client Committee' Cc: 'Lise Fuhr' Subject: RE: [client com] Draft CWG Comment Letter on CCWG Final Proposal Dear Sharon, We had some discussion on list with regard to this letter but as far as producing a revised draft, there is only one suggested change (see below). Any links will need to be checked to ensure they reflect the actual final proposal and related documents as opposed to the draft. The full report is here: https://community.icann.org/x/8w2AAw <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_x_8...> . Please could you work the changes suggested below into your draft in order to make a final letter for review and consideration by the CWG at their meeting tomorrow. If you could turn this around today (24 February), that will be most helpful. If you are unclear or require further input or assistance on this matter, please revert to us ASAP. Best wishes, Jonathan -- * 1.b says: “The ability to exercise oversight with respect to key ICANN Board decisions (including with respect to the ICANN Board’s oversight of the IANA Functions) by reviewing and approving: (i) ICANN Board decisions with respect to recommendations resulting from an IANA Function Review (“IFR”) or Special IFR and (ii) the ICANN Budget;” Because the CWG Stewardship’s focus is specifically on the IANA budget, would it make sense to change (ii) to something like this: “the ICANN Budget including a separate budge for IANA services”? It seems to me that this would be consistent with item 2. * I like the fact that the letter states the CWG requirements for each area and that a clear conclusion is provided but I think it would also be very helpful if in each of the eight cases, between the CWG requirement paragraph and the conclusion, the CCWG Accountability recommendations that fulfill the requirements were briefly listed. If this seems like a good idea, here is a formatting idea: Provide a heading for each of the three paragraphs of each of the eight items just like is already done for the conclusions: 1) CWG Stewardship Requirements; 2) Applicable CCWG Accountability Recommendations; 3) Conclusion. From: Flanagan, Sharon [mailto:sflanagan@sidley.com] Sent: 19 February 2016 21:57 To: Client Committee <cwg-client@icann.org <mailto:cwg-client@icann.org> > Subject: [client com] Draft CWG Comment Letter on CCWG Final Proposal Dear All, Attached please find a draft of the CWG letter to the CCWG regarding the CCWG Supplemental Final Proposal. As noted in our prior email, with respect to the CWG dependency for an empowered community there was a request in the prior CWG comment letter for CCWG to consider whether the timelines in the prior CCWG proposal for SO/AC action were sufficiently long. The revised CCWG proposal has extended some of these timelines. As noted in our prior email, while this is not strictly an issue of conformity with the CWG proposal as the CWG proposal does not address this type of detail, we wanted to confirm that CWG was satisfied with the response to its prior comment letter. Please also note that the community power to recall the entire ICANN Board is modified when the Board is to be recalled for implementing GAC advice. Specifically, if the Empowered Community initiates an IRP challenging the Board’s implementation of GAC advice as being inconsistent with the ICANN Bylaws but does not prevail in the IRP, the Empowered Community may not exercise its power to recall the entire Board solely on the basis of the matter decided by the IRP. The Empowered Community may, however, exercise the power to recall the entire Board based on other grounds. We don’t believe this directly impacts the CWG dependency, but we did want to note it. Please let us know if you have any questions or would like to discuss. Kind regards, Holly and Sharon SHARON R. 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