Re: [ICANN-EU] Any interest in an alternative interface to the ICANN Q&A Forum?

["JIM FLEMING" <jfleming@anet.com>]

Andrew,

Go for it. Anything you can add to "the net" to route around ICANN will
help.

As many people have learned, some of the key people involved with ICANN
do not even use the Internet, they do not care about the Internet. They are
primarily worried about where their next travel junket will be and whether
sushi or shrimp will be served. Those will be the types of "decisions" made
by
the Board members.

As for other people....we have Top Level Domains (TLDs) to build....

1:20 - .ARIZONA is just one of thousands....
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt


Jim Fleming
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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Bloch <abloch@alum.mit.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 11:47 PM
Subject: [ICANN-EU] Any interest in an alternative interface to the ICANN
Q&A Forum?


> Use the power of the Internet -- let's not restrict ourselves by the
ancient
> limitations that ICANN imposes on us.
>
> As most of you probably know by now, ICANN has set up a question and
answer
> forum for members (only) to ask questions of nominees
>  http://members.icann.org/qa.html ).  Unfortunately, there are a few
> features missing that could be useful, and I've started thinking about
> creating an alternative interface to make up for the shortcomings.   I
could
> create a mirror of all the questions and answers on ICANN's official site
> and provide some advanced features.
>
> Here are some of the features I'm considering:
>
> 1.  Allow users (members and non-members) to post comments in response to
> the nominees' answers.
>
> 2.  Forward new answers to interested users by email, so they don't have
to
> visit the website frequently.
>
> 3.  A compact table showing which candidates have answered which
questions.
>
> 4.  A clearinghouse or other method for activated members to volunteer to
> ask questions on behalf of non-activated members or members from other
> regions.  (Under ICANN rules, active members can only submit questions to
> nominees in their own region.)
>
> Before I start working on this, I wanted to measure people's interest
> (because I have a lot of other things that I should be doing with my time
> ;).  Please take a few seconds and send me your comments (to me only,
unless
> you really think it's important enough to distract 100 people).
>
> Would you use any or all of these features?
>
> Can you think of other features you'd like?
>
> Which features are most important, if there isn't enough time to implement
> them all?
>
> *** If you are a candidate, would you try to read and/or respond to users
> comments?
>
> Do you think a significant portion of at-large members will find this
> useful?
>
> This would be most useful if as many members as possible know of its
> existence and use it.  Would you help promote it via any contacts you have
> with appropriate websites, email lists, etc.?
>
> If a lot of people do use it, we will probably need to run it on another
> server, perhaps mirrored locally to each region.  Do you have access to a
> web server that could handle the possible traffic?  (preferably a unix box
> plus perl with the cgi and lwp libraries).
>
> I have other projects that I should be working on.  Are you a web
developer
> that could do this faster and/or better than me, with time to get this
going
> in the next 24-48 hours?  Do you have any scripts that would be very
useful?
> Or, should we instead involve a site like http://www.slashdot.org that
> already handles user comments and can support the bandwidth?
>
> Thanks for your responses,
>
> Andy Bloch
>
>
>

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