<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div>Hi Milton,</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Try to avoid personal insults, both in tone and content.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Excellent idea. Let’s all do that. <div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The topic of conversation here was the Jones Day interpretation of California law and whether ICANN as corporate entity and its law firm will seek to preserve its power.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>That may be the thread but the topic of my comment and the one to which you responded was my suggestion that what Kieren said was a fact was not a fact.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Your status as a board member with an fiduciary interest in supporting the interests of the ICANN corporation is a relevant factor in this debate.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>As I said:</div><div><br></div><div>"…..<font color="#666666">I am more than capable of dividing my responsibilities/opinions as a Board member from those as CEO of auDA from those of an individual. I appreciate that as an academic you have no experience of doing this…."</font></div><div><br></div><div>I rest my case.</div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On 10 Feb 2015, at 13:05 , Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></a></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 4.8pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chris Disspain [<a href="mailto:ceo@auda.org.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:ceo@auda.org.au</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">You do yourself a disservice by pulling out the Board member card.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">MM: I am not sure what kind of disservice I have done to myself, but I think you are the one who is sending this debate into the gutter. Try to avoid personal insults, both in tone and content. The topic of conversation here was the Jones Day interpretation of California law and whether ICANN as corporate entity and its law firm will seek to preserve its power. Your status as a board member with an fiduciary interest in supporting the interests of the ICANN corporation is a relevant factor in this debate. Asserting that academics have no experience in this or that is not a relevant argument.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></span></body></html>