HI Alan,

I think Maureen and I also agreed and mentioned this during the meetings as well.  Since we did not want Grant Money to be used to fight these multiple challenges and delay the grant.  I have added some comments as well. Looking forward to tomorrow's Meeting

Best,

Judith

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On 3/27/24 4:24 PM, Alan Greenberg via OFB-WG wrote:
One of the items on our agenda is the Proposed Update to Recommendation 7 by the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross-Community Working Group (CCWG-AP).

This proposal was made in a letter from Board Chair Tripti Sinha to the Chairs of the CCWG-AP Chartering Organizations - https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/sinha-to-clemente-et-al-02mar24-en.pdf.

In essence, the change widens the cases where ICANN's accountability measures cannot be used by applicants to the grant program.

As one of the active participants in the CCWG and (I think) the person who originally raised the issue of limiting accountability processes, I support the proposed change. There was no attempt to limit the restriction within the group. We just didn't identify all of the possible aspects.

As the drafter of the original statement giving ALAC support of the CCWG-AP, I have drafted a brief response to the letter.

The Wiki workspace is https://community.icann.org/x/BgMZEw and the draft statement is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c12w6oql_RC6iCJ55mc2WmzLZPEmF-KDKq8C0950gOk/edit.

Alan

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