Re: [ICANN-EU] Independent support for Jeanette Hofmann

[Florian Cramer <paragram@gmx.net>]

Am Sat, 26.Aug.2000 um 20:16:17 +0200 schrieb Michael Bracker:

> if the campaign is serious the web page should be asap in English. We've got
> quite many German voters - yes - but if only Germans vote for her she won't
> be elected either as you know.

Yes, you're right. 
(Sigh...) The page was launched as my private opinion page, which may
explain why it's monolingual. Although I factually haven't the time to do
this, there will be a translation ASAP.

> Don't you think this is a little bit hard? Did you talk with Andy and Lutz

Perhaps. I read Andy's and Lutz's statements and found they were in partially
terrible English. While I admit that - as a philologist - I might value that
competence too high, I still find crucial that an ICANN candidate has, next
to technological competence, the linguistic competence to be vocal on the
director's board.

That said, I highly value Lutz as a privacy activist and Unix guru, and I
highly value Andy as an unconventional thinker and overally sympathetic
person, but unlike Jeanette they didn't occupy themselves with Internet
standardization politics as far as I could find out.

But thanks for your critique. I will correct the phrasing as follows: Of all
independent candidates, Jeanette Hofmann is probably the one who has most
intensely studied the ICANN and has been most vocal about its political
deficiencies.

Florian