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

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Andy,
May I add to GG's proposal to keep the link to the candidate's page, that 
disappears for no (apparent to me) reason when the candidate moves to the 
withdrawn list.
Thanks
RG


>From: "Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>
>To: ajm@icann.org
>CC: icann-europe@fitug.de
>Subject: [ICANN-EU] A small-effort enhancement proposal for the ICANN web 
>site
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:05:18 +0200
>
>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place near to the right of his/her name in the withdrawn candidates page as 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withdrawn by the member-nomination process is limited to a 3 short e-mails.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
>
>

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