[ICANN-EU] RE: prefered access for ICANN nominees

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

Dear Andrew:

I highly appreciate you and ICANN taking the time and energy for this.

My request of reconsideration is based on an equal rights violation.


>Maybe it's a language issue.  To "nominate" in English (in the context of
>elections) is to place on the ballot.


Sorry, the dictionary and I disagree.
It means to put up for election. Or as ICANN defined it,
quoted earlier, to put in front of the voters.


>Tonight, for example, Al Gore will be "nominated" by the US Democratic
Party
>in Los Angeles -- that means that his name will then officially appear on
>the ballot in the federal elections in November.


Great example!
Al Gore did not have competing candidates, placed on the ballot without
going
through the same process that he did.
His equal rights were not violated.


>The Nominating Committee, by definition and name,
>places candidates on the ballot

Sorry, I did not find or receive an ICANN document
defining nomination as to be placed on the ballot.


>(again, look at the nominating
>committees in the IETF, ISOC, ARIN, >etc.).

The argument, it is done this way over there too, is not substantial.
Any how, do the other bodies have member nomination as well?
Or is the the nomination committee the single source of candidates?
Are there different proceedings for different candidates?

Dear Andrew, may I, in the kindliest possible way ask you to address
the issue of the equal rights violation?

Thank you very much and all the best,

Andreas Fuegner