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

["Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com>]

Dear Griffini:

Sorry, to correct you, but Andrew is wrong.
The decision was made to put nom-com candidates "in front of the
At-Large-Members".
It doesn't say that they are to be put on "the ballot" as Andrew says!

This might seem just a small difference. But that is exactly the point of
our discussion here.

Andreas Fuegner


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Griffini Giorgio <grigio@mediapoint.it>
An: icann-europe@fitug.de <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Datum: Mittwoch, 16. August 2000 09:50
Betreff: [ICANN-EU] About Nom-Com issue and 'reconsideration' petition


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