[atlarge-discuss] responses of the nominees

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

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Dear Bruce and Joop,
here are the responses received so far, if you wish to publish them on the 
site. I This is limited by the size of what Eudora can accept. But the 
responses are on excel. Please let me know what you need for your publications.
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Asaad Alnajjar
It is my honor to accept the nomination and I hope that I would be upto 
your expectations. Introduction page will be at 
http://www.any-dns.com/najjar.htm within the next 48 hours. Best wishes & 
regards,

Thierry Amoussougbo
It is a pleasure for me to contribute to the WSI.. I agree.

Hugh Blair
I accept nomination for the election of the Panel for icannatlarge.org. I'd 
be please to work toward moving this organization forward.

James Khan
I accept the nominations for the election to the Panel of 
"icannatlarge.org", and will server the position of that office with 
dedication and loyalty if elected by mandate of the IcannatLarge Community.

Pierre Ouedraogo
Dear @large Polling Committee Members, Please note that I accept the 
nomination for the the election of the panel. / It will be a great pleasure 
and an excitant challenge to contribute building up the @large community at 
this level. I will prodide tomorrow the URL of the web page. Thanks to you 
for the trust. Best regards

Jonathan Robin
Folks, I was surprised by the nomination and am uncertain whether I possess 
the requisite qualities, and the deadline for acceptance leaves little time 
to create the necessary links. / At present Candidate for the Board of 
Trustees of the Internet Society a General Statement and Biography are 
online http://www.isoc.org/members/vote/2003election/profiles/index.shtml / 
I attended the ICANN meeting in Amsterdam and for the second year running 
am putting together the European Domain Name Summit to be held in Paris on 
July 3rd. The program for this will be online around May 15th. For last 
year http://www.eurocio.org/domainname/archives/2002/eng/ / My longstanding 
personal commitment to a more transparent Internet environment is 
unquestionable, my ability to organize the at large community in such a way 
as it succeeds in its long term objectives, alas, I cannot guarantee .... 
but neither, quite frankly, can any of us on this list. / Perhaps this 
candidacy can be termed an act of faith in the future of democrat

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
I accept my nomination. I think it's time somebody set an example around here.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch
I'm still considering if I intend to get heavily involved again in such 
issues. I'm extremely busy at the moment after a fire at my workplace. I 
will formally respond to this mid week after I've had some time to consider 
the implications. I'm currently working 70-100 hour weeks and this may 
continue for another fortnight. I'm reluctant to commit for further time 
encroachments at the moment and if I do respond postively it would mean a 
large time/energy commitment. I'll get back to you ASAP.

Abel Wisman
Upon my return from a short brake I received this, and seemingly the 
response date has already closed. My break was able due to the (UK) 
Bank-holiday weekend, hence I left Friday and returned today. - Before I 
make any decision I would like to know whether my nomination was seconded, 
if not pls accept my decline of this nomination, if however seconded I 
would like to consider the nomination in the next 24 hours. - Awaiting your 
response - Kind regards



Amadeu Abril i Abril
Thanks to those who nominated me, but I have to decline. First of all, I am 
still setaing in the Board, and I don't find that I should have any other 
ICANN-related job until such time as I wuit the Board of Directors. / 
Secondly, I do confess that I don't have many clear ideas about how to 
organize the at large process. To be frank, I prefer participating and 
heloping what others wil try than putting myself in an organizng role: I 
should better leavbe the leadership to those not only having the energy and 
the willingess, but also the ideas. / Thanks again.

Joe Baptista
Dear @Large Members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
Numbers. / It has come to my attention that I have been nominated to the 
panel of the ICANN at large soap opera. I must respectfully decline and 
have provided my reasons in detail. / As many of you know I have been 
involved in ICANN - namely as a member of the General Assembly of the 
Domain Name Supporting Organization, a unit of the ICANN monster. And from 
the begining I have made it very clear what my position was with respect to 
ICANN. I predicted the Clintons administrations failure to take control of 
the internet and so my predictions have come to pass. I think my nomination 
and decline is indicative of this. / First their are some personal reasons 
why I don't want any association with the panel. I direct the memberships 
attention to the following URL of interest: / 
http://www.icannatlarge.com/voting.html / Many good people have been 
nominated. Unfortunately the nominations are scattered with such notable 
personalities as este

Domingo Barón
Dear friends, My sincere apologies for my late response to your message, 
due in no small measure to current rather heavy demands on my discretionary 
time. For this reason above all, I must decline your kind nomination. But 
you may rest assured that I shall be following with interest the results of 
the forthcoming election and look forward to being able to participate in 
our public forums again soon. With my best wishes,

Marilyn Cade
Dear atlarge@execlub.org, I must decline the nomination with appreciation 
for consideration. Best regards,

Esther Dyson
Thank you very much for this nomination. However, I respectfully decline 
it. For one, I think my mere presence provokes controversy in your 
community, and it would be better for me to stay away. Second, my 
involvement with the ALAC creates a conflict of time and interest. I wish 
you luck regardless, and I sincerely hope you can pull together an 
organization that will be able to provide useful representation of its 
members and input to ICANN.

Raul Echeberria
Dear all: Sorry for not have sent my answer before Sunday. I was on 
vacations. By the way, the nominated should have more time to send their 
acceptance. In any case, I respectfully decline my nomination. I'm serving 
as a CEO of LACNIC and it could mean some conflict of interest. Thank you 
for the nomination.

David Farrar
Thank you but I decline

Leah Gallegos
I wish to thank you for nominating me to the panel of Icannatlarge.org. 
Unfortunately, I must decline as I cannot devote the time and effort 
necessary to perform well for the organization. / Again, please accept my 
thanks for the confidence that nomination suggests. Sincerely,

Michael Geist
Thank you for the nomination. I respectfully decline. Good luck.

Richard Henderson
I am grateful for being nominated, but regret to say that I am not offering 
myself as a candidate at the present time. I did indicate several months 
ago that I would not be standing for re-election. I remain fully behind the 
ideals and aspirations of this organisation and I hope I can continue to 
contribute to its goals. The need for true representation of internet users 
in the administration of the DNS is essential to safeguard 'our' internet 
(in its multiplicity of forms) from capture by commercial, political and 
military entities.

Norbert Klein
Dear Friends, sorry for the late response - still just in time before 
Sunday midnight GMT. I can also only respond by e-mail. I cannot give you a 
web site/URL as requested at the end of this mail: I do not have a personal 
one. / As I had indicated, I lost confidence in the efforts related to 
atlarge.com and atlarge.org - as they seemed to me too much developed into 
an exercise of base democracy and not in an exercise of how to organize a - 
at present disenfranchized - at-large membership trying to still make an 
impact on ICANN. - Any panel which will have to work - constantly watching 
that the opinions of the at-large membership is regularly polled, while 
ICANN and its different constituencies are actively moving - is in a 
situation which I see paralyzed. I have seen enough criticism on he 
discussion lists against "dictatorial behavior" of panel members - when I 
thought that they tried to act as needed - as long as they acted, before 
they sank into oblivion out of frustration. / You may remember that I tried

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
Dear friends, / as a member of the first panel I proposed already during 
the second round of electionss to bring fresh ideas and people to this 
group. So I do it also in the 3rd round. With regret, I must therefore 
decline the nomination. I'm nonetheless grateful to have been considered 
again. / Best wishes

Joanna Lane
Thanks for thinking of me for the At Large Panel, but I regret I must 
decline. / You are using the ICANN trademark without the proper 
authorization from ICANN and as such, this raises ongoing personal 
liability issues for Panel members that does not serve the At Large 
interest well. / Like Joe, I wish you had consulted me first about this 
matter to save this embarrassment

James Love
thank you very much but i decline.

Judyth Mermelstein
With all due respect, I must decline this nomination for several reasons: / 
1 - I have said (more than once) that I have no desire to be part of the 
"power structure" of this group. / 2 - I have offered (more than once) to 
do whatever I could as an ordinary volunteer but found that such work as I 
did do was mostly wasted effort on my part. / 3 - Having reached the point 
where I think my energies could be better employed elsewhere, I have 
resigned as a member of this group and am therefore ineligible to be a 
candidate for its Panel. / 4 - Besides, given the attitude towards me 
demonstrated by several of the other candidates, I can only assume my 
nomination was the work of some "traitor to the cause" .. of keeping this 
group from getting any real work done on behalf of anyone but those 
present. / It is my hope that my absence from the Panel will enable it to 
work together as a unit and ensure that this group becomes a real 
organization which can pursue whatever goals its members think appropriate. 
If for som

Pierre Mounier
Dear members of polling committee. Thank you for your proposal but I don't 
want to participate to this election. I have absolutely no time to get 
actively involved in icannatlarge.com activities (I hardly found some to 
answer to this message !) and I don't want to make promises I won't be able 
to fulfill. Sincerely yours,

Elisabeth Porteneuve
Dear Colleagues, The nominations honors me, but unfortunately I cannot 
accept it, my current commitments and work take all time I have. / The 
perspective of individuals is essential in Internet governance, it makes a 
difference. I would like to see surveys prepared by individuals, and 
organized records of facts and issues made by individuals. There are many 
subjects, including status of domain name and why you choose to register 
names with that TLD, that registrar, that country and legislation, that 
currency. / Bonne chance for AtLarge election,

Thomas Roessler
I'm sorry, but I have to decline -- I'm already committing a *lot* of time 
and resources to the ALAC side of at-alarge things, so I probably just 
woudln't able to contribute the necessary commitment. Good luck.

Walter Schmidt
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the 
praise he gives...by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, 
by the look of his house...for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing 
hath affinities infinite. - Ralph Waldo Emerson / It would be with great 
satisfaction, and not just a little humility, if I could play even the 
smallest of roles in ensuring the Internet rights of all, were being 
represented. / There are those amongst us, who in my opinion, could do as 
good a job as any in such a pursuit, and with whom I would gladly work. / 
Unfortunately, we have allowed, and continue to allow, this group to take a 
few too many wrong turns. / And, notwithstanding the guidance given us in 2 
Corinthians 11:19, I do not suffer fools gladly. / Therefore, while I will 
continue to do what I can regarding the Internet rights of us all - at this 
time, I must respectfully decline the nomination for election to the Panel 
of "icannatlarge.org." / Further as to why... / To be aff

Marc Schneiders
I have already declined a few days back. I haven't changed my mind

Greg Shaw
Hi guys / Whilst I am honoured to have been nominated for the Panel position,
circumstances do not allow me to accept the nomination at this time. / Keep 
up the good work.

Jan Siren
It is with the sincerest regret that I must decline nomination to the 
icannatlarge Interim Panel.

Dany Vandromme
Dear all / I am glad to be nominated (with support) for the ICANN@LARGE 
panel election. and I want to thank the individuals who put my name on that 
front. However, my current duties for the French national research and 
education network, together with the commitments to the Pan-European GEANT 
network will not allow me to free enough time to make a decent panelist 
work for the @large community. I decline the nomination / Yours sincerely

Jon Weinberg
Wth regret, I must decline the nomination. I'm nonetheless grateful to have 
been considered.