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<br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Oct 2015, at 21:00 , James Gannon <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net" class="">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">-James<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 02/10/2015 11:53, "<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of Avri Doria" <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org" class="">accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" class="">avri@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">On 02-Oct-15 06:10, James Gannon wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">be unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory in its tone<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">We need to remember that this was the release of a document created for<br class="">the Board. It was probably not written for our eyes. I am grateful we<br class="">were allow this peek behind the curtain.<br class=""><br class="">What is interesting to me is the realization that if the Board is fed a<br class="">steady diet of such legal advice, it becomes easy to understand the hard<br class="">line positions they take.<br class=""><br class="">avri<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---<br class="">This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.<br class=""><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" class="">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br class="">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org" class="">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a><br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></span></body></html>