[ICANN-EU] Re: Distinctions Between Candidates

[Rob Courtney <rob@cdt.org>]

Jeff,

I definitely agree that there are numerous questions that need to be 
both asked and answered, beyond the eight that were included in the 
questionnaire. Our project, though, wasn't designed with that kind of 
interactivity in mind. CDT's policy has been to try to redirect 
people to other forums better able to handle give-and-take dialogue 
among voters and  between voters and candidates, such as the NCDNHC, 
ICANN-Europe, and ICANN-NA lists, as well as the ICANN Q&A Forums, 
imperfect though they may be. Our page of links is online at 
http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/elections/resources.html. If you know of 
lists or sites that we overlooked, please let me know.

As far as a second round of questions to the candidates goes, while 
it would certainly be helpful to have more candidate info, my feeling 
is that time is too short. We're still trying to rally in a first set 
of responses from a number of candidates, and I'd like to avoid 
putting the cart before the horse in this case.

r


At 10:11 PM -0700 9/27/00, Jeff Williams wrote:
>Rob and all,
>
>Rob Courtney wrote:
>
>  > Members of the NCDNHC,
>  >
>  > Interesting results are surfacing in the ICANN Questionnaire Project
>  > undertaken by CDT, Common Cause, and the Bertelsmann Foundation. The
>  > candidates' responses to our questionnaire (which was distributed
>  > last Monday) are showing significant distinctions between the
>  > candidates, as well as clear indications of their concrete policy
>  > ideas. This kind of data has occasionally been difficult to isolate
>  > out of the numerous mailing lists and Q&A forum discussions, and we
>  > hope that voters find a concentrated resource like this useful.
>  > Particularly in the domain of the UDRP and in ICANN's larger mission,
>  > it's becoming possible to identify the disjunctions from one
>  > candidate to another. I'd like to invite any and all members of the
>  > NCDNHC to review the page, and I hope that if you have any comments
>  > or thoughts, you'll contact me with them.
>
>   I am contacting you in my capacity as INEGRoup Spokesman.
>Our members have been firing off questions to me and our
>directors regarding CDT's questionnaire
>at:http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/elections/questionnaire.html
>
>   We feel that these question are fine, but also believe that many other
>question to the candidates need or should be ask.  Does you
>process allow for additional questions to be added?  Is it open
>to voters questions?
>
>  >
>  >
>  > The page is online at http://www.cdt.org/icann-election/. It's still
>  > a work in progress, and candidate responses will continue to be added
>  > as we receive them.
>  >
>  > r
>  >
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Rob Courtney
Policy Analyst
Center for Democracy & Technology
1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
202 637 9800
fax 202 637 0968
rob@cdt.org
http://www.cdt.org/