Absolutely - congrats all! Matthew On 5/27/2016 2:40 PM, James Gannon wrote:

Proud is the right word. Thanks Chris, this is a moment we should all savour.

-James

From: <cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org <mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Chris Disspain <chris@disspain.id.au <mailto:chris@disspain.id.au>> Date: Friday 27 May 2016 at 14:36 To: Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community@icann.org <mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>>, "cwg-stewardship@icann.org <mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org>" <cwg-stewardship@icann.org <mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org>> Cc: ICANN Board <icann-board@icann.org <mailto:icann-board@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [CWG-Stewardship] [CCWG-ACCT] TR: [bylaws-coord] For Review - Summary and Analysis of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws

All,

The ICANN Board has today passed the resolution approving the new by-laws.

Whilst the transition is not yet complete, congratulations to all who have worked so hard to bring the process to this point, especially ICANN staff, external legal teams and the members of and participants in the CWG-stewardship, the ICG and the CCWG-ACCT.

This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement, compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this process.

I am proud to be part of this community. We should all be. Congratulations to all!

Cheers,

Chris

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On 27 May 2016, at 19:13 , Mathieu Weill <mathieu.weill@afnic.fr <mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr>> wrote:

Dear Colleagues, Some small edits were included in the Bylaws during the Bylaws coordination group that took place yesterday. During this call, our lawyers confirmed that all our comments have been adequately addressed. Conclusions were reached by consensus on all of the items for discussion flagged in the memo shared yesterday. As a consequence, we have confirmed to the Board that the Bylaws were consistent with the CCWG-Accountability proposal, and were ready for approval. We have also expressed our appreciation for the outstanding work from staff in turning all the comments around and providing clear documentation in the course of this finalization process. Best, Thomas, Leon & Mathieu PS: please see Bruce Tonkin’s latest email for an update on the Board’s next steps, including adoption of the Articles. *De :*bylaws-coord-bounces@icann.org <mailto:bylaws-coord-bounces@icann.org>[mailto:bylaws-coord-bounces@icann.org]*De la part de*Samantha Eisner *Envoyé :*jeudi 26 mai 2016 23:01 *À :*bylaws-coord@icann.org <mailto:bylaws-coord@icann.org>;icann-board@icann.org <mailto:icann-board@icann.org> *Cc :*Amy Stathos *Objet :*Re: [bylaws-coord] For Review - Summary and Analysis of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws Dear ICANN Board and Bylaws Coordination Group, Attached is a document showing the minor edits that were discussed on today’s call. Please note that there is also a small modification in Section 22.4 to add a requirement for a PTI Operating plan, that was discussed on the CWG’s Client Committee email list this morning. Best regards, Sam *From:*Samantha Eisner <samantha.eisner@icann.org <mailto:samantha.eisner@icann.org>> *Date:*Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 6:50 PM *To:*"bylaws-coord@icann.org <mailto:bylaws-coord@icann.org>" <bylaws-coord@icann.org <mailto:bylaws-coord@icann.org>>, "icann-board@icann.org <mailto:icann-board@icann.org>" <icann-board@icann.org <mailto:icann-board@icann.org>> *Cc:*Holly Gregory <holly.gregory@sidley.com <mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com>>, "Rosemary E. Fei" <rfei@adlercolvin.com <mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com>>, Amy Stathos <amy.stathos@icann.org <mailto:amy.stathos@icann.org>> *Subject:*For Review - Summary and Analysis of Public Comment and proposed revised ICANN Bylaws Dear ICANN Board and Bylaws Coordination Group, Attached please find the following documents

1. The Summary Report of Public Comments 2. A Detailed Chart of ICANN’s Analysis of the Comments (in support of the Summary) 3. A clean version of the proposed New Bylaws, revised to address the comments 4. A redline of the Bylaws, showing the changes from the 20 April version posted for comment 5. A short memo to the BCG noting a few items for consideration

I am also including for your review a CLEAN and REDLINE version of the proposed Restated Articles of Incorporation, which has been agreed amongst ICANN and Sidley and Adler. The Report and proposed Bylaws will be posted on the ICANN Public Comment page shortly. Please let us know if you have further questions. We look forward to speaking with you tomorrow. Sam Eisner <Bylaws - Redline - May 26 to May 25.pdf><Pièce jointe sans titre 00022.txt>_______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org <mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community

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indeed! avri On 27-May-16 11:55, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

Very well said Andrew.

Chuck

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On May 27, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:

This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement, compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this process. I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. But also, I want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.

Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet operational communities do is hard work. Feelings run high, and because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come to compromises. And yet, over and over again, the community delivers. "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the best interests of the Internet.

When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet. But the Internet works because of the way we work things out. We forge proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion. The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is invited to help make it function.

We do, together, what none separately could do. The doubters will continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest legitimacy. I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only properly be called a global community.

Best regards,

A

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I'll applaud and echo the words of Chris, Andrew and James. What we do here is awesome, even if it is messy. As someone who was highly GNSO-centric before the IANA Transition, these two working groups brought me into the orbit of other stakeholder subcultures and introduced me to other participants in this Grand Experiment beyond the usual gang. It also provided a depth of understanding for other perspectives of ICANN, internet governance, and the internet itself, and it deepened my technical knowledge significantly. I am now an incredibly more well-rounded netizen. Even if we had not succeeded, it would have been worthwhile for those reasons alone. But we have succeeded. Of course, that doesn't mean we are finished -- quite the opposite. But as we keep going on this endless version of the Amazing Race, we'll be doing it in a community more tightly bound and in an institution/ecosystem that has more of the community's fingerprints on it than ever before. Congratulations to all of us! Greg On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:01 PM, James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net> wrote:

Very very well said, as someone who only got involved in all this quagmire that is ICANN as a result of the IANA transition, and had no experience in internet governance before that, I have to say it has been an amazing experience and is something I am immensely proud to have been involved in and played a part of. It really is something amazing and we all should be very happy today.

James

On 27/05/2016, 17:03, "cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org on behalf of avri doria" <cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org on behalf of avri@apc.org> wrote:

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indeed!

avri

On 27-May-16 11:55, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

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Very well said Andrew.

Chuck

Sent from my iPhone

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On May 27, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>

wrote:

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Dear colleagues,

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:

This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement, compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this process. I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. But also, I want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.

Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet operational communities do is hard work. Feelings run high, and because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come to compromises. And yet, over and over again, the community delivers. "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the best interests of the Internet.

When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet. But the Internet works because of the way we work things out. We forge proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion. The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is invited to help make it function.

We do, together, what none separately could do. The doubters will continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest legitimacy. I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only properly be called a global community.

Best regards,

A

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+2 - Chris and Andrew, well expressed - and to all, congrats! Jordan On Friday, 27 May 2016, Goran Marby <goran.marby@icann.org> wrote:

+1 Goran

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On May 27, 2016, at 17:45, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com <javascript:;>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:

This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement, compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this process.

I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. But also, I want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.

Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet operational communities do is hard work. Feelings run high, and because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come to compromises. And yet, over and over again, the community delivers. "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the best interests of the Internet.

When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet. But the Internet works because of the way we work things out. We forge proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion. The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is invited to help make it function.

We do, together, what none separately could do. The doubters will continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest legitimacy. I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only properly be called a global community.

Best regards,

A

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​https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-icann-bylaws Congratulations to everyone.​ On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 Andrew! thanks to the board and the entire global "internet community" that contributed to this rather rare activity. This step is an indication that progress can be made amidst our diversity when there is an agreement on the end-point.

A big thank you to the community for accommodating one another (to some extent), we should improve on it even as we look towards the next task i.e WS2.

That said, it's not over yet and I hope that the end-point would indeed be achieved. A special occasion to celebrate this(perhaps at the next face 2 face) may be in order!

Regards

Sent from my LG G4 Kindly excuse brevity and typos On 27 May 2016 6:45 p.m., "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

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Dear colleagues,

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:36:04PM +1000, Chris Disspain wrote:

...

This has been a long, arduous and at times emotional process. Through all of the debate, discussion, disagreement, compromise and journey to consensus there have been many ups and downs but I have never failed to be anything other than impressed and sometimes overwhelmed by the commitment of those who chose to be involved and who have gave their time and effort selflessly to this process.

I of course want to express my joy that we have crossed this milestone and my congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. But also, I want to emphasise something in what Chris says above.

Doing things in the sort of open ways that the various Internet operational communities do is hard work. Feelings run high, and because we work on the Internet and in full view of everyone it takes a great deal of personal discipline and good will for people to come to compromises. And yet, over and over again, the community delivers. "Awesome" is a much-overused word, but if ever I have felt awe it is in response to the ability of people from many different backgrounds and points of view, and with divergent needs, to come together in the best interests of the Internet.

When I was in Washington earlier this week, there were a couple times when I thought the line of questioning contained an underlying implication: that you can't _really_ trust this sort of important responsibility to an amorphous bunch of people on the Internet. But the Internet works because of the way we work things out. We forge proposals and build the future in the furnace of public discussion. The Internet functions for everybody partly because everybody is invited to help make it function.

We do, together, what none separately could do. The doubters will continue to deride our ways as naïve and amateur, but our ways -- of coming to consensus and constantly respecting the value of that consensus -- give our results both effectiveness and the greatest legitimacy. I am enormously grateful to be part of what can only properly be called a global community.

Best regards,

A

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