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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">MM: Yes, but not unilaterally, there is a review process anchored in the names community that it would have to do through. Some of the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Will ICANN sack the Board, Mangement or staff?&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1F497D">MM: Here again we need to distinguish between \u201cICANN\u201d (the corporation) and ICANN community. The review process could lead to calls for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">There seems to me that there was some confusion between us on the role of the NTIA and how the names proposal would address this.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">The NTIA has a number of roles \u2013 identified in the document which went to consultation in December.&nbsp; I\u2019m sorry if I did not make clear that I was looking
 at NTIA\u2019s role in letting the contract and its ability to terminate and re-tender.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">One key part of the CWG\u2019s discussion has been focussed on separability \u2013 a role that NTIA currently has by virtue of its contract with ICANN for the role
 of IANA functions operator.&nbsp; The contract approach allows the role to be reassigned in the case of the IANA functions operator failing to meet obligations and failing to remedy the failings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">In the model in front of us today, at transition ICANN would take the NTIA responsibility for a contract with its affiliate (subsidiary) the PTI \u2013 where
 PTI is the contractor currently providing the IANA functions operator, the IANA division in ICANN.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">The role of the CSC is to carry out the operational responsibilities associated with managing the contract.&nbsp; Its role is quite limited in that it monitors
 performance against the agreed service level targets and works with PTI to ensure that concerns are addressed.&nbsp; The CSC does not make the decision on the future of the contract.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Discontinuing the third party authorisation of changes to the registries;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Further work on dealing with appeals on changes to the registries;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Using the CSC and PRF to process changes to service level agreements and other operational conditions;&nbsp; and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Using the CSC (and/or the PRF) to initiate discussion on structural or operational changes (the introduction of DNSSEC was the example I
 used) but leave open for the moment who might authorise change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">(I might have missed something, so do not treat this as a definitive list.&nbsp; There\u2019s also a lot of detail I have not covered.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">However, all of these would come back to ICANN to implement or cause to be implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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