[ICANN-EU] About Nom-Com issue and 'reconsideration' petition

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

Hello,
I think that Andrew McLaughlin explained quite clearly the ballot selection 
process. I'm not here to support or go against ICANN on this way of making 
the ballot and the people which followed early discussions on ICANN public 
forum knows, for example, that 2% minimum was in origin set to 10% a 
figure that has been viewed as impossible to reach and consequently 
lowered to actual figure.
Howewer, we are running on the final rules after a public consideration period 
which has been closed on due time so we should accept them now. 
Please keep in mind that this is just the ballot selection. 
The most challenging risk, even for the Nom-Com itself,  will be the voting 
session in October. Think about what will be the effect on Nom-Com of an 
election where Nom-Com selected candidates gets just a fraction of votes 
given instead to member-nominated candidates. As a last resort, if we all 
think that this election process is not enough fair we can choose to not vote 
at all.  In this last (drastic) case think on how much will the be directors 
selected by the "At Large" election enough representative of members. 
It will drop ICANN reputation on "openness" at the ground level. 
What I'm trying to tell is that starting a reconsideration process just now is 
really too late (even for ICANN itself ) to be a positive way to solve what 
many people seem to identify as a real big issue.
But we still have the best way to express our opinion: our vote. 
I'm sure these two weeks will be rush days for any of the member nominated 
candidates but we (as voting members) will have the whole month of 
September to evaluate on how this election is being conducted and decide 
what comes next.

Best regards 
Giorgio Griffini