The Chartering Organizations aren't legal entities, so they can't be signatories to the Community Agreement (whether by their Chairs or otherwise). Signing this agreement would not be in scope for the Empowered Community, so that doesn't work either. We have a legal entity that will be the signatory -- ICANN, which I believe has already agreed to do so. (Similarly, the IETF is not a legal entity, but rather an "activity" of ISOC, so I believe ISOC will be signing on behalf of the IETF as the "Protocol Parameters Community.") I don't know whether we *need* formal Chartering Organization approval for this set-up. That said, it would probably be good to inform the COs of this set-up and see if there are any objections. Greg On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Chuck,

I think item 1 is required, though it may perhaps be good to hear from ICANN first on whether they would accept to act on behalf subject to the conditions stated(or a modification of it), before reaching the COs for an ack.

On another note, assuming we are not constraint on timing, it may be better for the Chair(s)(or their representatives in the EC) of the CO to sign the agreement instead. This would however not be possible until the EC is formerly setup. That would give more formality to it and may also address part of Kavouss concern which I sense is around getting an entity to sign.

Regards Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos

On 6 Sep 2016 15:14, "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:

...

Pending input from Sidley, this looks pretty good to me. I do have two very important questions, assuming the CWG supports this letter of instruction as modified by Greg and any subsequent revisions proposed by Sidley:

1. Won’t we have to get approval from the ccNSO, SSAC, GNSO, ALAC and GAC in advance of sending the letter?

2. Realizing that each of the five organizations have their own approval processes that can take considerable time, how will we get all five approvals in the very short window we have?

If the answer to question 1 is affirmative, I think we need to start working on question 2 immediately.

Chuck

*From:* cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounce s@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Greg Shatan *Sent:* Monday, September 05, 2016 8:47 PM *To:* cwg-stewardship@icann.org *Subject:* [CWG-Stewardship] Fwd: Letter of Instruction from CWG to ICANN re Community Agreement.DOCX

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

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