<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Amusement value notwithstanding, and whether he has a point or not, I feel that the ICANN board ought to have done something at the time, if they had not preapproved of the appointment.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">They saw fit to let it slide.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Not, perhaps, what my own preferred response would have been, but certainly within the range of reasonable choices available to a board with almost no practical corrective sanctions available to it.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Now they have to tolerate any such howling and take it on the chin.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">To do otherwise would look weak and vacillating and would teach (formerly Canadian) wolves to chase the sledge.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 5 Feb 2016, at 04:43, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:epilisse@gmail.com">epilisse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>We have discussed this here before and hence I feel I should follow up that the junior Senator from Alberta has drafted a letter which I think is worth reading:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20160203_FadiChehadeLetter.pdf">http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20160203_FadiChehadeLetter.pdf</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Now my support to the Senator is limited to amusement, but he may just have a point here.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">el</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">-- <div>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>