<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We are litigious, certainly, but it is requirements like these that make us so. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Suspicious minds might wonder if one of the staff or directors has a known STD and a rampant libido and ICANN legal is worried about being held responsible for a syphilis outbreak. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or whether speaking in acronyms and boring everyone in near proximity about the progress of their working group is an infectious disease that ICANN is worried about being blamed for. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The possibilities are endless...</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 27, 2022, at 1:40 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" class="">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">The important thing to note is that the US is a litigious nation and it is within ICANN's purview to create waiver forms for its events otherwise it would not be able to host a physical event. For those who don't like it, they can participate virtually or wear immunity suits.....lol</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:33 PM Roberto Gaetano via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" class="">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks Marita.
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<div class="">This means to me that I acknowledge that ICANN has the right to be negligent. I have to confess that sometimes in the past I have thought that this was ICANN’s approach, but it is the first time that I see it in writing.</div>
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<div class="">I wonder whether this is a sort of friendly advice to participate online and avoid showing up in person in the Hague.</div>
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<div class="">On 27.04.2022, at 22:09, Marita Moll via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" class="">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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Dear colleagues. If you are planning to attend ICANN74, please note that you will be required to sign a very broadly worded waiver that goes well beyond any issues related to the pandemic. You can read the waiver here:
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</p><p class="">Several registrars have asked that this requirement be dropped <a href="https://domainincite.com/27793-icanns-covid-19-waiver-formally-appealed" target="_blank" class="">
https://domainincite.com/27793-icanns-covid-19-waiver-formally-appealed</a>. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Michele Neylon, Managing Director of Blacknight Solutions, seeking legal advice on behalf of himself and staff, was advised that neither he nor his staff should sign a waiver granting ICANN blanket exclusion of liability.
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<font color="#000080" class=""><span lang="zxx" class=""><u class="">https://blacknight.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/blacknight-ICANN-April-2022-Hague-waiver.pdf</u></span></font></a> .</p><p class="">It is an unsettling way to begin what was looking like a new beginning after so many hours at virtual public meetings. I have attended more public meetings in my life than I could ever count, and have never been asked to sign such an extensive
waiver. I would be interested to know if others have ever encountered this.</p><p class="">Marita Moll, ALAC rep. for NARALO<br class="">
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