Thanks for that Chris, it wasn’t clear on my initial read that was the case. -James From: Chris Disspain Date: Friday 2 October 2015 12:03 To: James Gannon Cc: "avri@acm.org<mailto:avri@acm.org>", "accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org>" Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] FW: Continued Counsel Dialogue And, let me say again…the memo was sent to your lawyers, not to the Board. Cheers, Chris On 2 Oct 2015, at 21:00 , James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net<mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net>> wrote: Agreed Avri and that was chat promoted me to respond to be honest, I don’t feel that this kind of tone is helpful to the board members trying to understand our proposal. -James On 02/10/2015 11:53, "accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Avri Doria" <accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of avri@acm.org<mailto:avri@acm.org>> wrote: Hi, On 02-Oct-15 06:10, James Gannon wrote: be unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory in its tone We need to remember that this was the release of a document created for the Board. It was probably not written for our eyes. I am grateful we were allow this peek behind the curtain. What is interesting to me is the realization that if the Board is fed a steady diet of such legal advice, it becomes easy to understand the hard line positions they take. avri --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community