RE: [ICANN-EU] don't endorse me (oliver thuns)

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

R.Gaetano wrote:
> 
> We may want to talk ICANN Staff into taking some actions following the
> willingness of some candidates to drop out from the race, either in favour
> of a different candidate or just to stay at the window and enjoy the show
> ;>).
> 
> We all agree, I assume, that somebody that is really willing to give a
> reasoned vote will have to (at least) read all the 75 applications, and that
> the size of the task may be such that he/she may be drifted away. I had a
> friend calling me today just expressing his frustration in not being able to
> figure out which are the best candidates.
> 
> So, there's already a provision for this case (see the FAQ at:
> http://members.icann.org/faq.htm#dropout), but it will be unfair to simply
> delete the former candidate from the list.
> I think that the withdrawn candidates should be grouped at the bottom, with,
> instead of the number of endorsement received, the mention "withdrawn on
> yyyy-mm-dd" or "withdrawn in favour of <name>".
> The pointer to the presentation page should be kept, because it is fair to
> see, in particular in case of dropoffs in favour of other candidates, who
> the withdrawn candidate is.
> 
> What do others think about this?
> And ICANN Staff? <"Oh, no! More work!" ;>)>
> 

I agree with your considerations, and about 'the amount of work' maybe a 
simple dropout form should be enough. Considering that we may expect a 
relatively high number of dropouts on few last days to allow some candidates 
to reach the 2% cap this will also save some amount of work to ICANN staff 
too (which will have to manually handle the process instead).

Best Regards
Giorgio Griffini