[CCWG-ACCT] Responses to questions from Jones Day

Sun Feb 8 05:03:39 UTC 2015

The questions and answers are interesting as advocacy but cannot be considered legal advice for our work

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> On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:19 PM, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Answering your questions:
> 
> Keith.- The questions were presented by the Co-Chairs at our Frankfut
> meeting as a high-level first approach to what we should be focusing on
> achieving. They were also discussed at the CCWG call of January 27.  We
> then asked Staff to pass the questions through ICANN legal so they
> referred this questions to Jones Day. The document are the responses
> prepared by Kevin Espinola of Jones Day.  The goal was to get a very rapid
> response on some basic questions the group wanted answers on.
> 
> Jordan.- I believe Adam has clarified where the questions came from and
> how they got into Jones Day for response which is in line with what I have
> replied to Keith.
> 
> Phil.- Nobody said this was the advice we are taking. Please see this
> document as one more input document tat will feed our work, just as the
> CWG legal document has fed it. This is NOT intended to be taken as the
> legal advice we¹re looking for although in the end it might (or might not)
> be compatible with what we need.
> 
> I hope this clarifies the doubts and concerns raised so far.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> León
> 
>> El 08/02/2015, a las 12:05, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.NA> escribió:
>> 
>> Phil,
>> 
>> opinions of dependent lawyers are as interesting as the ones of
>> independent ones :-)-O
>> 
>> el
>> 
>>> On 2015-02-08 11:48 , Jordan Carter wrote:
>>> Phil, yes - the CCWG agreed with that in Frankfurt. It was felt it might
>>> be helpful to understand the view of the company and its representatives
>>> as well as an independent view, if I recall correctly.
>>> Jordan
>>> 
>>> On 8 February 2015 at 11:36, Phil Corwin <psc at vlaw-dc.com
>>> <mailto:psc at vlaw-dc.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   Jones Day cannot be regarded as an objective and neutral source of
>>>   legal advice or opinions on anything related to ICANN. Indeed, any
>>>   statement made by Jones Day must be regarded as the views of ICANN,
>>>   its long-standing client.
>>> 
>>>   Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>> 
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>>>   "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
>>>   *From: *Drazek, Keith
>>>   *Sent: *Sunday, February 8, 2015 11:14 AM
>>>   *To: *León Felipe Sánchez Ambía
>>>   *Cc: *CCWG Accountability
>>>   *Subject: *Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Responses to questions from Jones Day
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Leon, 
>>> 
>>>   Do I understand you correctly that Jones Day developed both the
>>>   questions and the answers? Did the CCWG request this?
>>> 
>>>   Thanks,
>>>   Keith
>>> 
>>>   Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>   On Feb 8, 2015, at 10:18 AM, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía
>>>   <leonfelipe at sanchez.mx <mailto:leonfelipe at sanchez.mx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>   Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>>   Please find attached the responses from Jones Day for questions
>>>>   prepared by Kevin Espinola. I would like to ask you to please
>>>>   review the document so we can further discuss it in our session
>>>>   tomorrow.
>>>> 
>>>>   I would also like to remind the group that this is a first step
>>>>   which runs parallel to what the legal sub-team is doing in
>>>>   coordination with the CWG “legal client”. The aim is to have this
>>>>   responses reviewed by the legal sub-team as well as by the larger
>>>>   CCWG so we can determine how to better validate this responses
>>>>   with the external legal advisors when we engage with said external
>>>>   advice.
>>>> 
>>>>   I look forward to a fruitful session with all of you.
>>>> 
>>>>   Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   León
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   <Accountability Questions for CCWG - from Jones Day.pdf>
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