Re: [ICANN-EU] politics, domocracy and icann (questions to candidates)

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Oliver Thuns wrote:
>1) How do you feel about the election and the endorsement-period (only 2 
>   self-nominated candidates will make it)?

My first impression (documented in web discussion at Heise) was: Why do they
think, Europe is unable to choose there own candidates?

After a kindly discussion with Andrew I accepted the situation as currently
unchangable.

IMHO (as expressed here some hours ago) this situation give the self-nom
candidates on the ballot more chances to win against the nom-com ones.
The candidates who did not reach the ballot itself would probably fail under
a modified procedere.

So I can live with this situation.

>2) Should the ICANN be democratic?

Difficult question. The major part of the directors board should be
democratic indeed. But there are a lot of questions which should be handled
more professionally. This scheme is similar to most democractic governments
where the lower bureaucraty is made of tenures.

>3) Only 5 of 9 directors will elected in this election. When and how
>   should the 4 remaining directors be elected?

In the same way (without nom-com). The people are aware of ICANN@Large now.