Re: [ICANN-EU] minor sidenote

[Holger Blasum <blasum@muc.de>]

> my 2 cents:
> 
> it's a bad idea for candidates to drag other candidate's names through 
> the mud.
> 

Dear Jeanette et al.,

having discussed that issue with him earlier I guess what disenchanted
 Marc about Andy's result is not so much personal antipathy but rather
a kind of "winner-takes-all" effect that those persons reap who are in 
a prestigious organization, notwithstanding that even these 
organizations can only represent a very tiny fraction of the European
electorate, not so say netizenship. 

To me the intelligent design of these elections suggests that
it should motivate candidates to grasp the opportunity  
to form links between national organizations and form joint electorial 
platforms. In the long run this will benefit successful candidates  
(because they have a broad electorial basis and are more respected and, 
more important, when serving the ICANN board there are supporting 
organizations), voters (more clarity and less FUD) and of course ICANN 
(better prestige due to higher legitimacy), and as a useful side-effect
Mr Liikanen or Mr Prodi or other EU people will have a countermatching
interest group (or several of them, even better) to speak with. To date,
AFAIK the only comparable approach -which has been born out of need, not out
of strength- is www.eurolinux.org, but its scope is far narrower than ICANN
(there's more -even libre- OS than GNU/Linux but only one internet 
name, number and protocol space).   

Dear candidates, please (ab?)use this nice event to form mutual
alliances which should be deeper than the ("oh, please confer my endorse-
ments to xxx") necessarily coming up sooner or later. At least, the 
discussions on this list are a good first step towards this. Aside: 
have all new candidates been informed of the existence of this list ? 
Some people are without email on the endorsement page... 

disclaimer: this is only yet another personal opinion,
regards, Holger Blasum, Munich (non-candidate, www.blasum.net/holger
to establish discourse symmetry)