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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31 Dec 2021 12:25 am, Evan
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          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">I am aware
          of harm to people coming from misuse of blockchain and am
          deeply suspicious of any organisation using it right now.
          Anyone interested in this subject is invited to <a
href="http://www.domainincite.com/27303-icann-is-blocking-23-gtld-transfers-over-blockchain-fears"
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          It alludes that there are large issues at play suggesting yet
          another alt-root attempt, this time involving NFTs.<br>
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          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">I am
          personally not impressed by this charm offensive, nor with
          attempts to sway opinion in the absence of due process. A
          proper investigation, should ALAC desire it, should consult
          multiple parties and I'm sure that the registries Jeff
          represents will be heard from at the appropriate time.
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          style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Since I
          think that most new gTLDs are a sad sketchy joke anyway, my
          initial instinct is that the parties all deserve each other
          and that non-registrant end-users are not impacted by this
          drama.<br>
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                      <div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span
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                          style="font-size:12.8px">@evanleibovitch / </span><span
                          style="font-size:12.8px">@el56</span></div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 10:47,
          Jeff Neuman via At-Large <<a
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                <div><span style="font-size:17pt;line-height:normal">All,</span></div>
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                    style="font-size:17pt;line-height:normal">I thought
                    this was important enough of an issue to be
                    discussed and I am happy to answer any questions you
                    may have.</span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
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                        style="font-size:17pt;line-height:normal">Please
                        see</span><span
                        style="font-size:17pt;line-height:normal"> </span><a
href="https://circleid.com/posts/20211230-icannas-accountability-mechanisms-in-name-only"
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                          style="font-size:17pt;line-height:normal">https://circleid.com/posts/20211230-icannas-accountability-mechanisms-in-name-only</span></a><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:17pt;line-height:normal">.</span>
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                          style="line-height:normal;font-size:17pt">This
                          article covers ICANN’s taking retaliatory
                          action against a company I am involved in for
                          daring to use the Reconsideration Process. We
                          alleged ICANN’s inaction was a violation of
                          the Bylaws (and you can read about that
                          separately).</span><span
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                          style="line-height:normal;font-size:17pt">What
                          does ICANN do? It “pauses” its consideration
                          of what it has failed to act on in retaliation
                          against my company thereby compounding the
                          original issue. In other words, we complained
                          ICANN was moving to slow in our request for
                          the assignment of a TLD Agreement - and that
                          was a violation of the Bylaws. ICANN has
                          responded by stating that it now needs to halt
                          all consideration of the assignment request
                          because we filed the Reconsideration Action in
                          order to investigate the basis of our claims
                          that it was moving too slow.</span><span
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                          style="font-size:17pt">———————</span><br>
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                          style="line-height:normal;font-size:17pt">There
                          will be a follow up post on why our initial
                          request for urgent reconsideration was
                          denied.  In short, ICANN has taken the
                          position that:</span></p>
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                          style="font-size:17pt">A). Only ICANN Board
                          Action can be challenged on an Urgent Basis. 
                          ICANN staff Action or inaction may not be.</span></p>
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                          style="font-size:17pt">B). And ICANN Board
                          Inaction cannot be challenged where the basis
                          for the “Inaction” is ICANN’s failure to pass
                          a Board Resolution. In other words, if you are
                          angry at the Board for not passing a
                          resolution, you cannot file an urgent
                          reconsideration request…..why…..because in
                          order to have an urgent Reconsideration
                          Request, there needs to be an actual Board
                          Resolution. Thus, if the board fails to pass a
                          resolution, by definition, there is no
                          resolution on which to basis the urgent
                          action.</span></p>
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                          style="font-size:22.6667px">————-</span></p>
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                          style="font-size:22.6667px">This case also
                          covers ICANN’s misguided fight against the
                          blockchain.  Although the request to assign
                          .hiphop has nothing to do with the blockchain,
                          ICANN has decided (wrongfully) that it does.<span></span></span></p>
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                          style="font-size:17pt">If you want to cover
                          any of this in an open session, I am more than
                          happy to discuss.  I believe all of this
                          should be done in the open and if ICANN Org is
                          not going to be completely open and
                          transparent, then there is no reason we cannot
                          be.</span></p>
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                          style="font-size:17pt">Sincerely,</span></p>
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                  <div style="direction:ltr">Jeffrey J. Neuman</div>
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