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Re: [ICANN-EU] Seven candidates cap

Dear Thomas, dear Mike:


As of yesterday Africa had one candidate.
Imagine ICANN had not nominated candidates.
Would not be much of a choice here, would it?

For the next voting ICANN knows better what to expect
and how to handle it.

It is sad, if we will only get to send two additional candidates
into the election. But that still means we have a choice.

If the voters don't like the candidates nominated by ICANNs committee,
they can vote for the others.

Best regards,

Andreas Fügner

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr <mike@cluon.priv.at>
An: icann-europe@fitug.de <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Datum: Montag, 14. August 2000 12:05
Betreff: Re: [ICANN-EU] Seven candidates cap


>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:13:28 +0200,
>Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote:
>[...]
>> This is indeed interesting.  In particular, I'm asking myself why it
>> wasn't possible for the nomcom candidates to just run for member
>> nomination.
>
>because it would open up the possibility of "the industry" losing control?
>
>i think that TPTB at ICANN (at least parts of) were and still are quite
>surprised by the amount of (public) interest in the at-large membership
>and they're trying to do some damage control on an issue that was supposed
>to be lip-service, and never a chance for the public to gain any real
>influence.
>
>of course, due to the success of the at-large membership, public scrutiny
>by now is quite high. so they can't just nuke the at-large approach, but
>they have to play it cool and try to pull the wool over the publics eyes
>before axing "outside" influence.
>
>mi "insert your favourite conspiracy theory here" ke
>
>--
>Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr  | ignorami: n: The BOFH art of folding problem
><mike+sig@cluon.priv.at> |           lusers into representational shapes.
>
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