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

[Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>]

Hello,

> > 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. 

*Shrug*. So what ? The price native English speakers pay for beeing born
with
the language the world speaks on the internet is seeing it abused and
mutilated 
over and over again. 

> 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.

Orthography doesn't equal eloquence. Maybe you jump to conclusions here
?

> 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.

Gimme a break! Jeanette is, with all due respect, a _sociologist_ ! She
did research about human intreractions within IETF, and how decisions
are reached, but as far as I can tell from her writing, she does not
really
understand the stuff people are talking there. 

So maybe she has deep insights about the process of decision making at
the
IETF, but that doesn't make her anything of an internet expert.

Lutz on the other hand, has substantial usenet experience (by
effectively 
running the thing for quite some time), has done quite some impressive
stuff
in the encryption / security area (pgp work, the IN CA etc), is involved
with FITUG (and thus heavy internet politics) for quite some time,
etc.

As for Andy you're ridiculous anyway. The ccc folks do grassroots
technology
politics for more than a decade now, and are (in)famous for making their 
point by a combination of sound technological know how and excellent PR. 

> 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 

I doubt that.

> and has been most vocal about its political deficiencies.

If you discount the last few weeks, well, I'm not aware of any. But
since I don't 
frequent CPSR forums all the time, you may be right here nonetheless.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr