RE: [ICANN-EU] Discriminatory bug

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

I wish to thank all of you who sent me a post or a direct mail.
Let us not over do it: my mail was not about the ICANN but
about an ignorance of the international reality and a surprising
filtering of relations based upon geographical criteria, affecting
French overseas citizens and projects as well as expatriates.

Let us not either confuse the issues. The international relations,
the GAC or the rules of this election are obviously not concerned.
The error is the filtering and most of all the inability for contries
spanning several regions or for expatriates to have multi-regions
or worldwide PINs.

Nevertheless, I wish again to thank the many of you who
sent me a private mail, specially those I technically or
conceptually opposed. It was surprising and good.

Andrew did a very good job during that election (I publicly
praised and thanked him for that as you may recall my
post). Let have him enjoy Amsterdam in peace after that
  harassing experience. I trust he will find a solution.
Jefsey

At 15:01 12/09/00, you wrote:
>You are (again) mistaken.  Residents of French territories are grouped
>together with France in the same region (Europe).  So (again) you react to a
>false premise.
>
>You have a simplistic and immature approach to these issues, because you do
>not bother to read the extensive documentation.  You speak from a position
>of ignorance, resulting in ignorant opinions.  In particular, your charges
>of racism are extremely offensive.
>
>The French government has fully supported the ICANN geographic diversity
>structure.  See, for example, the statement supported by the French
>government at <http://www.icann.org/gac/communique-24aug99.htm>.  If you
>have a problem, please discuss it with your French government first.
>
>--Andrew
>
>[ -----Original Message-----
>[ From: Jefsey Morfin [mailto:jefsey@wanadoo.fr]
>[ Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:47 AM
>[ To: mclaughlin@pobox.com
>[ Subject: RE: [ICANN-EU] [Q&A] the exciting adventures of a nominee
>[
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>[ Dear Andrew,
>[ I wish to underline that this absurd and dangerous approach does not
>[ stand anyway the French case.
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>[  > At 17:32 11/09/00, you wrote:
>[  > There's no mistake.  You are a resident of Asia/Pacific.
>[ Voting is defined
>[  > by residency.  Therefore you fall within Asia/Pacific for purposes of
>[  > voting.  Candidacy is defined by citizenship.  Therefore, you
>[ fall within
>[  > Europe for purposes of candidacy.
>[
>[ There are French citizens from all the regions as France has national
>[ territories in NA, SA, AA, Africa and Europe. I certainly accept to be
>[ an European candidate as most of the national territory is located there,
>[ but I definitly resent - I am not agressive but certainly very serioius
>[ about it - not to be able to discuss the regional concens of my country
>[ with the candidates of their area. I also resent that my fellow citizens
>[ from Mayotte, La Reunion, La Guyanne, La Martinique et la Guadeloupe,
>[ Saint Perre et Miquelon, Noumea, Thaiti, etc.. could not dialog with the
>[ French or the other European Community candidates. They are as good
>[ French citizen as me. Pretending and acting otherwise is be pure racism
>[ or offence against my country.
>[
>[ I am therfore sorry to have to do it, but I must solemny protest against
>[ what is most probably a mistake in the site design. But it imposes
>[ ethnical, cultural and geographical discrimination between my fellow
>[ citizens and separtes more than one million of them from the national
>[ community. Would you accept that he US citizens from Alaska and
>[ Hawaii could not talk to US candidates?
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>[ I will not juge from one case, but it is however important and childish
>[ enough to have some concern about the ability of the current ICANN
>[ culture to manage basic international operations.
>[ Jefsey Morfin
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