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JUNE 8, 2017
8:00 A.M. CST
ICANN
NATHALIE VERGNOLLE
JURISDICTION SUBGROUP MEETING

Amended by Christopher Wilkinson, June 16, 2017

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>> GREG SHATAN: Thank you, Kavouss.  I think that makes good sense and I thank you for the suggestion.  I feel like we are actually perhaps heading towards a common understanding of how to proceed.  And I'll turn to Christopher.  Thank you.

>> CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON: Hello, good afternoon.  
 I apologise for arriving late.  The connection took some time to wake up.  

Look, I have been party to many things and especially directly or indirectly to Annexe 12. In normal circumstances, as I've said before, we could continue with the de facto compromise that I agreed with Ira Magaziner and others in 1998.  But I would say today  - and you know what my point of view is, as I've said before, and I don't need to repeat myself - all I would say today is that the political situation internationally has changed radically in the last six months.

If you decide that considering recommending changes to ICANN's status -- is it within the scope of this subgroup, or perhaps it is not? -- or if we respect the effect of the group's mandate, but then please don't think that the issue has been resolved, for it will have to be addressed somewhere else.  I don't need to waste your time speculating about where it would go. It is not for sure, Avri, that it would go to the CCWG plenary.  

I think several of you are engaging in certain amount of wishful thinking, this cannot go away, as long as we are dealing with the international situation as we have experienced it in recent weeks.  Thank you.

>> GREG SHATAN: Thank you, Christopher.
There are certainly many questions out there.  
Not all of them are within the mandate of this 
subgroup, as important as those questions might be.  
I'll take Paul McGrady and then try to wrap up 
this portion of the discussion.  Paul, please go ahead.

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