The Amendment Process Is Subject To Amendment

["John Berryhill, Ph.d., Esq." <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While Verisign and others have characterized Section 7.6 as providing 
ICANN with a unilateral power of amendment, it is additionally worth 
noting that the definition of Restricted Amendments does not include 
amendments to Section 7.6 itself.
Hence, anyone concerned that the proposed agreement would essentially 
provide ICANN with a unilateral power of amendment subject to a 
supermajority Board vote, should also take into consideration that there 
need only ever be a single such vote to amend the amendment power itself 
to any future criteria on which 2/3 of the Board agree.
In other words, if you don't like giving 2/3 of the Board the power to 
unilaterally amend the contract, you'll like it even less after 2/3 of 
the Board votes to make it a simple majority thenceforth.

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