[ICANN-EU] A small-effort enhancement proposal for the ICANN web site

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

Dear Mr. McLaughlin,

This is a message for proposing an enhancement on the withdrawal page.
I suggest to allow a candidate who requested to withdraw from the member-
nomination process to leave a ten words (or a row) optional comment to 
place near to the right of his/her name in the withdrawn candidates page as it 
currently shown on web site.

As far as I know , the withdrawal process is actually handled manually by 
the election staff and that page is static and manually built so the additional 
effort needed to support this enhancement is really negligible.

On the other side, benefits will results for both the candidate which is going 
to withdraw and members who were giving endorsements to him/her.

The candidate doesn't know who is endorsing him/her, is not sure they will 
get a notice (FAQ tells:.. if time allows ICANN will send... ) of the event and 
the most important thing ..it becomes impratical to ride all place where (s)he 
was campaigning for endorsements to explain reasons of withdrawal.

Members, who owns endorsements, will be able to figure out what happened 
an decide what to do next in a more informed manner. 
A candidate will still have the way (being the comment optional) to decide to 
not give reasons for withdrawal, if (s)he likes to do this.

I don't see technical reasons for not allowing for this comment (this is not 
infringing or changing member-nominations process rules,rights or other 
policies) and the effort for allowing this for candidates which already 
withdrawn by the member-nomination process is limited to a 3 short e-mails.

I would like to kindly know your opinion about this proposal.
Thank in advance for your support.

Best Regards
Giorgio Griffini